‘Guardians and Wards’ : (A study of the origins, causes, and the first two years of the Mau in Western Samoa.)
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
BOOK ONE
‘
CLOUDS GATHER’
CHAPTER I: | Epidemics | 12 |
1. The introduction of foreign diseases into Samoa and their consequences. | ||
2. The Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918. | ||
CHAPTER II: | Politics (‘Queens and Pawns’) | 19 |
1. The resumption of the struggle between Pule and Tumua. | ||
2. Foreign interference in Samoan affairs, and its effects. Attempts to establish a stable Samoan government. | ||
3. Partition. | ||
CHAPTER III: | ‘ Germans and Rebels’ | 26 |
1. The Ta'imua-Faipule ‘revolt’. | ||
2. The Mau of Pule led by Lauati. | ||
CHAPTER IV: | ‘ Dreamers, Soldiers, the Adopted Child’ | 32 |
1. New Zealand aspires to a Pacific ‘empire’. | ||
2. New Zealand Military rule and its effects. | ||
3. Samoan reaction. | ||
CHAPTER V: | ‘ The League, the Colonel, the Moody Child’ | 36 |
1. The type of Mandate granted to New Zealand by the League of Nations. | ||
2. The system of civil administration established by New Zealand. | ||
3. Colonel Tate and Samoan unrest. | ||
CHAPTER VI: | ‘ Discontent on the Beach’ | 46 |
1. The establishment of Apia, and the growth of a part-European population. | ||
2. The causes and growth of European discontent. | ||
3. The Administration's racial policy. | ||
CHAPTER VII: | ‘ Citizens All’ | 52 |
1. The growth of organised European agitation. | ||
2. O. F. Nelson and the establishment of a permanent Citizens' Committee. | ||
CHAPTER VIII: | ‘ Attitudes, Views, Myths’ | 58 |
1. Papalagi racial myths concerning the Samoans and part-Europeans. | ||
2. Samoan myths concerning the papalagi. | ||
3. These three groups' views concerning the present and future of Western Samoa. |
BOOK TWO
‘
THE STORM’
CHAPTER I: | ‘ The General and the Adopted Child’ | 65 |
1. Richardson's policy: theory and practice. | ||
2. His policy regarding the European-part-European residents. | ||
CHAPTER II: | ‘The Mau’ (1926-27) | 76 |
1. European reaction to Richardson. | ||
2. Nelson's preparations for the proposed visit of the Minister of External Affairs. | ||
3. The first concrete links between the Europeans and Samoans. | ||
4. The first public meeting, October. | ||
5. The second public meeting, November. | ||
6. Richardson's reaction to the European-Samoan alliance. | ||
7. The growth of Samoan support; the Samoans take control of Mau leadership. The effects of this. | ||
8. The meeting between the Citizen's Committee and the Minister Nosworthy. | ||
9. The Royal Commission of 1927, and the evidence brought before it. | ||
10. The Report of the Royal Commission. | ||
CHAPTER III: | ‘ Of Myths and Men’ | 98 |
1. Olaf Frederick Nelson. An attempt to find out what type of man O. F. Nelson was. His motives for participating in the Mau. | ||
2. Sir George Spafford Richardson. A study of the man; his motives and objectives. | 105 | |
CHAPTER IV: | ‘ A Matter of Interpretation’ | 111 |
1. An attempt to arrive at an interpretation of the Mau. | ||
2. Written partly in interior monologue, expressing the author's doubts. | ||
BIBLIOGRAPHY: | 119 |