Poko Ingram

Poko Ingram (4 February 1919 – 13 September 1984) was a Cook Islands chief, politician and community worker.

[1] She attended Avarua School, and was awarded the Sir Maui Pomare medal for being its outstanding pupil, receiving the prize from New Zealand Prime Minister George Forbes.

Ltd.[1] The firm ran a cinema, several shops (including the largest in Rarotonga) and had shares in a clothes factory.

During the era of constitutional development, Ingram was in favour of the Cook Islands integrating into New Zealand.

[3] Outside politics, Ingram was the secretary of the Rarotonga Child Welfare group, and also founded and was the first president of the Cook Islands Women's Association.