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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]
Pages in category "New Zealand people of Samoan descent" The following 140 pages are in this category, out of 140 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ...
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 ...
Ulu Aiono was born in 1954 to a Christian family in Apia, Samoa. [6] His mother was the daughter of the paramount chief of Apia. [7] His father came from a less privileged background, but went on to become the chief interpreter for the Supreme Court of Samoa.
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 became a shop keeper, [5] married a Samoan woman, [6] and was the Apia correspondent for the New Zealand Herald. [7] In January 1924 Westbrook successfully contested the first elections to the Samoan Legislative Council, becoming one of the first three elected members. [8] He was re-elected in the 1926 elections. [9]