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Acknowledgment of MV Joyita Tragedy
Asenati Lole-Taylor
Spokesperson
for Pacific Island Affairs
09 March 2012
NZ First Pacific Island Affairs spokesperson Asenati Lole-Taylor is pleased the Government has finally acknowledged the MV Joyita tragedy by hosting the Samoa MV Joyita Commemoration ceremony in Parliament.
The event marked the loss of 25 people on board the vessel of the MV Joyita on the 3rd of October, 1955.
“The ceremony was an occasion which provided a time for the families to have some sense of closure,” Mrs Lole-Taylor says
It is a world maritime mystery what happened to the New Zealand and Tokelauan passengers 56 years ago.
ENDS
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