‘Guardians and Wards’ : (A study of the origins, causes, and the first two years of the Mau in Western Samoa.)

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.	page break
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.