Samoa

Date: 1979

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1084-11

Description: Other Titles - The Role of the church in rural development Other Titles - A Survey of christian worship in relation to Samoan concepts of \"Tapuaiga\" and \"Tautua\" Other Titles - Loyu and Christianity: a Tongan experience. Other Titles - The Church's mission in a changing society: redefinition of new areas of the church's mission with special reference to the Congregational Christian Church in Western Samoa Other Titles - Nationalism and the Christian Faith: a study concerning Christian Nationalism in Irian Jaya in the light of national and Christian unity. Other Titles - Indo-Fijian and Fijian relationship in Fiji. Other Titles - Leadership and the Church, with special reference to the Anglican Church in the New Hebrides. Other Titles - The Relationship of the Anglican Church and the Solomonis on the Island of Ovalau, Fiji Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1858-1937

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2993

Description: Selected papers from a variety of family and shipping company records, relevant to Australia and New Zealand Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1879-1938

By: Cruickshank, Alexander, 1856-1938

Reference: MSX-4408

Description: A collection of newspaper clippings and other material, relating to the police career of Alexander Cruickshank, both in New Zealand and in Western Samoa; includes handwritten reminiscences, especially relating to early life in Scotland Source of title - Transcribed Cruickshank was born in Scotland, arrived at Bluff in 1878 on the Waitara and joined the Armed Constabulary. He served in the police at Lower Hutt, and in other parts of New Zealand. In 1915 he became inspector and in 1921 superintendent. From 1922-1926 he was appointed commissioner of police in Samoa Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, printed matter

Date: [between 1919-1936]

By: Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1988

Reference: PA-Group-00580

Description: Photographs taken in Samoa between 1919-1936, when the Rutherford family lived there. A M Rutherford's father, D A J Rutherford, was headmaster of Ifi Ifi (Leifiifi) School in Apia (from 1919) and then later, was Superintendent of Schools (1923-1936). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Albums at PA1-o-445 to PA1-o-448 Quantity: 4 album(s) Album(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: To Manuscripts & Archives - Typescript autobiography of Alexander Rutherford. Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 1994. Reference number changed from PAColl-3700 to PA-Group-00580 in 2010.

Date: [Circa 1880s, and 1920s]

By: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951; Summers, John Arthur Campbell, 1916-1993

Reference: PA1-o-484

Description: Album of photographs, postcards and newspaper cuttings relating to Samoa and Tonga, circa 1920s. Many of the photographs, and some of the newspaper cuttings have limited captions, or no identification at all. At the beginning of the album there is a signed Christmas card from George Spafford Richardson, with a photograph of him and another European standing in front of a fale with a large group of Samoan men. One image of Robert Louis Stevenson ([p 2]), is signed by him, and another one shows the tomb of Stevenson and his wife Frances Matilda (Aolele). There are a number of views of Vailima, Stevenson's home, one early view showing Stevenson on the verandah with a group of women and another man standing above looking over the balustrade. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album covered with tapa cloth, tan corners and spine; 23.5 x 33 .0 cm

Date: Jan - Dec 1930

By: Gleeson, Francis Joseph, 1908-1993

Reference: MS-Papers-5959

Description: Generally Gleeson notes only his basic duty (night shift, day shift etc) or activities but at various times, particularly while he was in Samoa, his entries become more detailed. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - Diary kept by Gleeson while travelling around Samoa at MSX-4599 Diary kept by Gleeson, who was a policeman based in Wellington, but who was posted to Samoa during the Mau disturbances Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) Provenance: Donated by son Peter Gleeson

Date: 1922-1936

From: Rutherford, Alexander Mathieson, 1915-1998 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PA1-o-448

Description: Photographs of Samoa, related to the period when Donald Alexander john Rutherford was a teacher, and then Superintendent of Schools in Samoa, between 1922 and 1936. Inside the front cover is a list of names of over a hundred native Samoan teachers who trained in Western Samoa during that period. There are group portraits of members of staff in the Samoan Education Department, teachers, students, sports teams; groups of boy scouts on parade; and one of a group attending the Conference on the Education of Native Races in the Pacific held in Honolulu in 1936. Several images show local and visiting dignitaries, including the Duke of Gloucester, Sir Herbert Hart, General Richardson, and Lord Bledisloe; and the visit to Samoa of a group of New Zealand teachers. Many of the images relate directly to the farewell ceremonies held at the departure from Samoa of Donald Alexander John Rutherford and his family in 1936. They include images of his home and personal servants. Inscriptions: Album page - "Staff of Native Teachers, Western Samoa, 1922-1936" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with cover bound in tapa cloth; 24.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1933 - 1935

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11946-084

Description: A booklet published by N. P. C. Ltd, [1933]. Also includes a newspaper article and a letter that were laid in to the publication. The letter is written by Thomas B Slipper, dated 12 September 1935, and relates to the Samoan independence movement. There is also an annotation written in Slipper's hand on the front cover of the booklet. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: One folder including one published booklet and loose papers

Date: 1969-1970

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1084-02

Description: Other Titles - Marriage Patterns in the Ellice Islands. Other Titles - A Study of marriage patterns in the Gilbert Islands Other Titles - Sunday Observance in Samoa Other Titles - A Study of True and False in the Religion of Luther: insights for the Methodist Church of Fiji Other Titles - Adolescence in and around Tarawa. Other Titles - Jeremiah's Message in the Pacific Setting. Other Titles - Indigenization of Worship in the Gilbert Islands. Other Titles - Evangelization Other Titles - The Diocese of Polynesia, 1868-1910 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

From: Haas, Anthony Roger David, 1944- : Papers

Reference: 86-102-029

Description: Quantity: 1 box(es). Finding Aids: See preliminary list for further details.

Date: 1874-1978, 2009

By: Grattan, Frederick James Henry, 1909-1983

Reference: MS-Group-0091

Description: The papers reflect Grattan's career in the administration of Samoa and his study of the history, customs and language of the country. Grattan, a New Zealand civil servant, served in Samoa from 1929 and rose to become Secretary of Samoan Affairs Quantity: 127 folder(s). 8 volume(s). 2 box(es). 3 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 13-25 Mar 1930

By: Gleeson, Francis Joseph, 1908-1993

Reference: MSX-4599

Description: Gleeson records his travels through various parts of Samoa while he was not on duty; he describes his daily routine, his travel companions and other aspects of his journeying from Malaga (Upolu) and including Faleatai, Matautu, Lotofaga, Samatau, Saanafu, Tafitoala, to Poutasi where he visited the police department in the former German Resident Commissioner's house, Afaga, Mututele, Fagaloa Bay and back to Apia Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - Diary kept while on police duty in Wellington and Samoa at MS-Papers-5959 Gleeson was a policeman posted to Samoa during the Mau disturbances in 1930; this diary records his travels during a time he was off duty Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (13 cm; black rexine, in case folder) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs M Penrice, Waikanae, May 1997 Samoa Constabulary district office stamps for Poutasi and Aleipata

Date: 1960s

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: PAColl-10510-1

Description: Photographic prints and proof sheets of people, Māori meeting houses, kapa haka (Māori cultural) groups, and landscapes. Includes photographs in various places in New Zealand, as well as the Pacific (probably Samoa), taken by various photographers, circa 1960s. Includes images of details of whakairo carvings and paintings from whare, as well as decorated hue (gourds), a pounamu toki, and the 'Rotorua Whaka Maori Concert Party' performing an action song. The Samoan images include a wedding. Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s) Includes one item made up of five sheets with 148 images. 4 b&w copy photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Black & white, and colour photographic prints Transfers: These photographs were separated from the material in 77-014/06A for storage reasons in October 2016..

Date: [ca 1880s-1970s]

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

By: Pulman (Firm)

Reference: Series-7053

Description: Photographs fall into three general groups: those relating to Jock McEwen's professional career with Island and Maori affairs; those that relate to his interest in Māori art and culture; those that probably relate in some way to his own family and background. The first group includes recordes of the diplomatic and ceremonial side of events in Samoa, The Cook Islands, and Tokelau, in the 1970s. There are groups of photographs of Wellington Māori clubs rehearsing for Waitangi Day celebrations, and of events at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference Wellington, 1965. The second group consists of photographs of mahi toi (Māori art), taonga (artifacts), and whare (buildings). Many of these date from the 1880s and 90s and some have belonged to S Percy Smith, one of the albums having his name on the end paper. In this group there are also photographs of Māori, and groups of Māori, many in traditional dress photographed in association with wharenui (meeting houses). Some of the people have been identified. There are also what may be personal and family photographs. The largest collection of these have been made by a missionary family working in the Melanesian Mission in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu (New Hebrides) between 1918 and 1928. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-087032 to 087122; 1/2-181288 to 181293 Quantity: 370 b&w original photographic print(s). 14 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 13 colour original photographic print(s). 6 folder(s). 2 album(s). 1 Other printed ephemera item(s). Transfers: Bewick engravings transferred to Drawings & Prints 16.11.1999. At Library reference E-586.. Processing information: Arranged by format in 1999 into Photographic archive, combined with ATL-Group-00693 and title edited in August 2023.

Date: 1912

From: McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978 :McIntosh Collections of antique maps

By: McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978; Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877

Reference: MapColl-945aj/1914/Acc.42783

Description: McIntosh Collection, item 104 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Engraving, black & white, scale [ca. 1:455 000], on sheet 69 x 103 cm. (1730)

Date: 1871-1880

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

By: Stanmore, Arthur Charles Hamilton Gordon, Baron, 1829-1912

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1636

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1885-1935

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0581-0589

Description: Papers of Wilhelm Solf, the first governor of Western Samoa, and later ambassador to Japan. Includes correspondence, both private and official, publications, speeches, lectures, essays and a biography. Papers cover Solf's career from being a district judge in East Africa, to president of the Apia Municipality, his governorship of German Samoa, and his later career as an ambassador. Quantity: 9 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Deatiled inventory on Pacific Manuscripts Bureau Catalogue.. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB

Date: n d

From: Westbrook, George Egerton Leigh, 1860-1939 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0061-079C

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1943-1973

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: 77-014-2/04

Description: Mobile Recording Unit, Taranaki (1946); note inside folder states that it contains only pages 4-35 of the catalogue. Also includes manuscripts of radio talks re Te Kooti, the Wairau Affray (1843); and Maori historical articles by Fowler. Also includes some broadcast notes relating to what seems to be a broadcast covering Samoa's independence from New Zealand in 1962. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1914-1915, 1924-1926, 1935-1938

By: Smith, Stephen John, 1887-1948

Reference: MS-Group-0047

Description: Papers relating to Smith's time spent in Samoa 1914-1915; material for inclusion in his book `The Samoa (NZ) Expeditionary "Force" 1914-1915'; comments and reviews of the book, 19124-1926; letters from Smith to his family from the Cook Islands while Secretary and some time Acting Resident Commissioner 1935-1938; official correspondence from Judge Ayson to Smith, 1936-1937 Publication - The Samoa (NZ) Expeditionary Force 1914-1915 [Wellington: Ferguson & Osborn, 1924] Quantity: 11 folder(s). 0.11 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 14 black & white photographs of Samoa, ca 1914-1915 - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Official stamp - Kaiserlicher Gouverneur von Samoa - Curios-006-022.