Education in the Cook Islands the 1900s. Fifty years later it reopened, in 1954, as a public school. The European School, began in the 1920s. In the 1930s, it was based in the Sunday School Hall, on the seaward side of the Avarua Cook Islands Christian Church at the main town in Rarotonga. It is not known at this stage as to whether it was a London Missionary Society school or privately run. However the school closed in the 1940s. In the late 1940s, the New Zealand administration opened the Avarua Side School, which was an adjunct school of the Avarua Maori School. In 1958,
St. Pierre Island St. Pierre Island St. Pierre Island is a raised reef island west of Providence Atoll and part of Farquhar Group, which belongs to the Outer Islands of the Seychelles. It has a distance of southwest of the capital, Victoria, on Mahé Island. St. Pierre Island bears the name of one of Captain Dechemin's ships, who visited the island on 6 June 1732. In former times, much of the island was covered with a "Pisonia grandis" forest, in which large numbers of seabirds nested. The coral rock was thus covered with guano. The guano, and since the 1950s also the rock