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,
Capital punishment in Rhode Island to 27. It was then appealed to Governor James Fenner, who reviewed the conviction but refused to intercede. John Gordon was hanged on February 14, 1845. It was the last execution in Rhode Island. On January 23, 1852, after seven years of discussion and debate concerning Gordon’s conviction and the merits of capital punishment, the Senate Committee on Education issued a report. The report contained literary references to the death penalty, and outlined U.S. and European practices regarding it. On February 11, 1852, the Rhode Island General Assembly abolished capital punishment. The death penalty was reinstated in 1872 for murders