Arumaki Strickland | |
Office1: | Member for Radio and Telephone Services |
Term1: | 1966–1969 |
Office2: | Member of the Niue Assembly |
Constituency2: | Alofi North |
Term2: | 1960–1969 |
Birth Place: | Cook Islands |
Death Date: | 9 September 1971 (aged 69) |
Death Place: | Alofi, Niue |
Arumaki Strickland (died 9 September 1971) was a Cook Islands-born businessman and politician in Niue. He served as a member of the Niue Assembly for several years, and was a member of the Executive Council, serving as Member for Radio and Telephone Services.
Born in the Cook Islands, Strickland ran a bakery in Rarotonga. He became Secretary of the Cook Islands Workers' Union and managed the Cook Islands Native Association.[1] He moved to Niue in 1947 to open a bakery, and subsequently became involved in several other business ventures, including a trading firm and bus operator, as well as opening the island's first cinema in 1949 and a garage in 1970.[2] [3]
In the first elections to the Niue Island Assembly in 1960, Stickland was elected from the Alofi North constituency. After being re-elected in 1966, he was elected onto the Executive Council.[4] Later in the same year, a Member System was introduced, with Stickland appointed Member for Radio and Telephone Services.[5] However, he retired from his political roles in 1969 due to ill health.[1]
Strickland died in hospital in Alofi in September 1971 at the age of 69. He was survived by his wife and twelve children.[3]