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Mutalau has an online virtual group, "Cyber Muta", used for sharing and exchanging information (news, views, reports, images, family notices) to
Mutalau people living in different places in the World, Niue, New Zealand, Australia, USA and so forth. There is a Mutalau group in Auckland called Mutalau
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At the moment MVC is implementing two projects with funding support from the
European Union. The Eco-tourism project focuses developing a recreation building, walking tracks and access to caves and reefs around the Uluvehi coastal areas. The Mutalau Coconut Oil focuses on producing coconut oil for
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Mutalau Village Council (MVC) is very active in promoting and implementing community development projects. In 1996 a workshop was hosted by the Mutalau Village Council focusing on Designing and Developing Community Projects, consultants for the workshop was funded by NZAID. The outcome of this
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The countries and international agencies that have assisted
Mutalau with development projects are listed below. The people of Mutalau acknowledges their kind assistance and further seek their assistance for more development projects and contribute towards our social and economic development:
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as the name for their trust called the
Mutalau Ululauta Matahefonua Trust (MUMT). Mutalau has a community hall called Salim Hall, named after the head of the UN Decolonisation Committee that came to Niue in the early 1970s to meet with Niueans and discuss the road map toward self-government.
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In 1864 Mutalau was listed as one of the five principal villages of Niue, and hosting a missionary station and Samoan teacher. In 1863 or 1864 the village was raided by a
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based in Sydney, and another group in
Brisbane. These groups are actively involved in raising funds, contributing items and offering sponsorships, especially for the
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is held in the final
Saturday of October to commemorate and celebrate and landing of the gospel in Niue, which happen in Uluvehi on 26 October 1846 brought in
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The
Mutalau Village Fiafia Night was designed and ready for service on 25 July 2009, a special evening/night of tours, culture and cuisine for tourists.
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In 1915 a tropical cyclone blew the roof off the church. Another cyclone in 1941 destroyed the government and mission schools, as well as twenty houses.
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song, the first hit from New
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both mean "head of the land". The name "Mutalau
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The village has 12,331 vanilla vines in July 2008 which is about 33 percent of Niue's total.
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554:"REVIEW"
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319:Culture
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298:Economy
255:Uluvehi
249:1846 -
200:History
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