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Walter Gudgeon
Walter Gudgeon was a New Zealand soldier, official and ethnographer who served as British Resident and then Resident Commissioner of the Cook Islands from 1898 to 1909. He prepared the islands' annexation by New Zealand in 1901 and ruled firmly, reducing the power of the federal parliament and setting up a land court.
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