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A majority of New Zealanders of Samoan ethnicity today are New Zealand-born. [2] At the 2013 census, 62.7 percent of Samoan New Zealanders were born in New Zealand. Of the overseas-born population, 84 percent had been living in New Zealand for at least five years, and 48 percent had been living in New Zealand for at least 20 years. [13]
Malietoa Tanumafili II, the O le Ao o le Malo (head of state) of Samoa and paramount chief of the Malietoa lineage, died on 11 May 2007 in Apia at the age of 94. At the time of his death, he was the oldest incumbent state leader and head of state for over 45 years, having been appointed for life to the post when Samoa gained independence in 1962. [1]
Malietoa Tanumafili II GCMG CBE (4 January 1913 – 11 May 2007) was a Samoan paramount chief who was O le Ao o le Malo (head of state) of Samoa from its independence in 1962, and the holder of the Malietoa maximal lineage title from 1940, until his death in 2007. After becoming the Malietoa, he worked as a civil servant and parliamentarian.
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III in front of the octagonal Mau office in Vaimoso village, near Apia, 1929.(Photograph by Alfred James Tattersall). Tupua Tamasese Lealofi-o-ā'ana III (4 May 1901 – 29 December 1929) was a paramount chief of Samoa, holder of the Tupua Tamasese dynastic title and became the leader of the country's pro-independence Mau movement from early ...
Folole Muliaga (c. 1963 – 29 May 2007) was a Samoan schoolteacher living in Māngere, Auckland, New Zealand.She was terminally ill with obesity-related heart and lung disease [2] and using a home oxygen machine.
Luagalau Levaula Kamu (died 16 July 1999) was a Samoan lawyer and Cabinet Minister. His 1999 assassination was the first political assassination in Samoa since independence in 1962. [1] Kamu trained as a lawyer in New Zealand, at Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Auckland. [1]
Thomas Andrew (19 January 1855 – 7 August 1939) was a New Zealand photographer who lived in Samoa from 1891 until his death in 1939.. Andrew took photographs that are of significant historical and cultural value including the recording on camera of key events in Samoa's colonial era such as the Mau movement, the volcanic eruption of Mt Matavanu (1905–1911) and the funeral of writer Robert ...
He returned to Samoa on 22 July 1936, [19] and helped in the signing of the co-operation agreement between Samoan leaders and the New Zealand administration. He was subsequently elected to the Legislative Council in 1938, [20] and re-elected in 1941. Nelson died in 1944, [21] and it was not until 1962 that his dream of Samoan independence was ...