Word: zealanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harsh and unkind things have been said about the U. S. rulers of Haiti, Nicaragua, the Philippines. Samoan Islanders appreciate Captain Stephen Victor Graham, U. S. Governor of Eastern ("American") Samoa. Most appreciative of all are the inhabitants of Western ("British") Samoa, mandate of New Zealand, eight of whom were killed by New Zealand police a fortnight ago. Last week the British cruiser Dunedin plowed through the South Pacific from Aukland, under orders to cow Samoans again. In Wellington, New Zealand's Prime Minister, the Right Hon. Sir Joseph George Ward looked owl-solemn above his waxed mustache and announced...
Poverty, disease, insurrection followed New Zealanders to Western Samoa. The eight islands composing the group were seized from Germany by a New Zealand expeditionary force at the beginning of the War. The Treaty of Versailles sanctified the seizure...
Samoan hatred of New Zealand commenced in 1918 when a ship, some of whose crew had pneumonic plague, was given clearance papers from New Zealand to Samoa. Western Samoa then had a total population of 40,000. Nine thousand caught the plague and died...
...Zealand officials, sent as administrators to Samoa, raised their own salaries, emptied the Treasury, set up a virtual monopoly in copra. For paying the natives a higher price for copra than the New Zealand Syndicate, one J. Nelson, millionaire South Sea trader, operator of So trading stations, was hustled aboard a steamer, deported from Samoa...
Last May another New Zealand plague ship was allowed to land at Apia, Western Samoa. Epidemic still rages among the susceptible natives. Over 1,000 have died...