Samoa

Title

Samoa

Shelfmark

MSS. Lugard 139

Summary

File 1, fols. 1-69: Correspondence with Alexander Wilson of New Zealand, Reginald Bartlett of the London Missionary Society, Major R.F.W. Ashworth, editor of the New Zealand Shipping Gazette, F. Milner, headmaster of Waitaki Boys' High School, Commander Brian Hewitt, Lord Bledisloe, Elizabeth Monroe, Lord Hailey and the Honourable Walter Nash about the administration of Samoa, 1932-1936.

File 2, fols. 1-27 and items 1-7: Material circulated by the Mandates Section secretariat on New Zealand's administration of Samoa, 1922-1935.

File 3, fols. 1-4 and items 1-3: Extracts from the Hansard report of a debate in the New Zealand Legislative Council and from the Offical Gazette on Western Samoan affairs, 1929-1935.

File 4, items 1-4: Report of the Western Samoan Legislative Council debate of 6 November 1934 and an ordinance and regulations printed in the Western Samoan Gazette, 1934-1935.

File 5, fols. 1-8: Newspaper cuttings on the unrest in Samoa and Margery Perham's articles in The Times on "White Rule in Samoa", with manuscript notes by Lugard, 1929-1935.

File 6, items 1-11: Annual reports from the New Zealand Government to the Permanent Mandates Commission, 1922-1929.

File 7, fols. 1-26 and item 1: Inaugural address of the Honorable William Cameron Forbes, Governor-General of the Philippines, with a copy of a letter sent by him after a month's service to the President of the United States (printed), with manuscript notes on the contents by Lugard, 1909.

Date

1909-1936

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box