Chinese - Samoa

Date: 1919

From: New Zealand Labour Party: [Ephemera, including election pamphlets and propaganda. 1911-1919]

By: Lyttelton Times Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-NZ-LABOUR-1919-03

Description: Flier criticising the New Zealand Parliament for the scheme of placing 3000 mainly Chinese workers on the Samoan Islands as indentured labour. Flier states that it had been a system established by the Germans, but was now supported by Sir James Allen and by Mr L M Isitt. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lettpress on flier, 220 x 143 mm.

Date: ca 1910

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 15

Reference: PAColl-7081-49

Description: Coconut industry labourers in Samoa, circa 1910, with Chinese workers cutting out copra in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.1 x 19.8 cm, mounted on board

Date: [191-?]

Reference: PAColl-9060

Description: Photograph of Chinese workers unloading copra, Samoa, circa 1910s. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on print. Date estimated by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15.4 x 20.4 cm

Date: 1920

From: Various artists :Collection of newspaper clippings, photocopies and bromides of cartoons by Fox (A-313-2), T Ellis - ie Thomas Ellis Glover (A-313-3), J. C. Blomfield (A-313-4) and John McNamara (A-313-11). Also folders of cartoons by various artists published in New Zealand Free Lance (A-313-6), in The Guardian (A-313-7), in Xrays (A-313-8), in the New Zealand Observer (A-313-9), in The Standard (A-313-12) and in various publications (A-313-1).

By: Glover, Thomas Ellis, 1891?-1938; NZ Truth (Newspaper)

Reference: A-313-3-032

Description: A fat priest, representing capitalism, is marrying a Chinese man, representing indentured labour, and a Samoan woman, representing Western Samoa. New Zealand Premier William Massey is one of the wedding party Other Titles - Labour Extended Title - It is now evident from the propaganda in the Plute Press that the main purpose of the recent parliamentary trip to the Pacific was to endeavour to justify the Massey Government's policy of indentured Chinese labor for Samoa. The Plute Prelate - 'God bless you my children and may you increase and multiply and bring forth dividends abundantly!' Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: A5 size bromide photograph

Date: [ca 1900s]

From: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: 1/2-020691-F

Description: Chinese indentured labourers tapping rubber trees in Samoa, circa 1900. Photograph taken by Alfred John Tattersall. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative