Marguerite Nora Eikura Kitimira Story, OBE (née Henry; 11 May 1922 – 25 September 2009), was the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Cook Islands from 1965 to 1979. She was the first female cabinet member in the Cook Islands and the first woman in the Commonwealth to become speaker of a national parliament.[1][2]
- ^ Makiuti Tongia, "Trends in National Politics at the Village Level: A Cook Islands Case" in Wermer von Busch et al (eds, 1994). New Politics in the South Pacific (Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, Rarotonga and Suva, ISBN 982-02-0115-2) p. 283.
- ^ Helen Greig, "‘Madam Speaker’ passes away", Cook Islands News, 2009-09-30.