World War, 1939-1945. South Pacific. Western Samoa

Date
1942-1944
Reference
PAColl-4161-01-111
Description

Photographs taken during the visit of the Governor General to Western Samoa (undated) but sometime during WWII. Includes those taken at Piula Methodist Mission; meeting Samoan chiefs; with Fono Faipule (meeting of representatives at Mulinu'u); school children dancing at Apia; during King's kava ceremony at Savaii; meeting NZ officers; group photo with members of Fono Faipule (Riput, Tamasese, and Malietoa, administrator); with Samoan nurses at Apia. Also photos of scrap metal collected on Rarotonga for National Patriotic Fund.

Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s).

Access restrictions
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Part of
New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency / World War, 1939-1945. Photographs
Format
19 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs
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