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Black Saturday : New Zealand's tragic blunders in Samoa / Michael Field.
- Title
- Black Saturday : New Zealand's tragic blunders in Samoa / Michael Field.
- Author
- Field, Michael, 1953-
- Publication
- Auckland, N.Z. : Reed Publishing (NZ), c2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | DU819.A2 F53 2006 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 228 p. : ill., map, ports.; 19 cm.
- Summary
- New Zealand ruled Samoa from 1914 to 1962 and during this time managed to kill 25 percent of the population in the space of a couple of weeks through the careless introduction of Spanish influenza. Faced with growing Samoan calls for independence New Zealand responded violently, gunning down eight people in the streets of Apia, including high chief Tupua Tamasese, in 1929. The working title comes from a line in a speech given two years ago by Prime Minister Helen Clark when she went to Samoa and offered a formal apology for the events above. The book relates the story of New Zealand’s rule, from the invasion by soldiers from Wellington to Auckland, up to Helen Clark’s apology.
- Alternative Title
- New Zealand's tragic blunders in Samoa
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- includes bibliographical references (p. 219-220) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Good sort of people -- Passing serpent -- A prize -- Sickness on the boat -- Mixed up races -- Military order -- Samoa's drifting police chief -- Banishments flow -- Backward people -- Deportations -- 'O Samoa': the military police -- Winning side -- Childishness and sex -- Libel -- Black saturday -- 'Palagi are coming' -- Seditious organisation -- Gramophone -- Smouldering fire -- Contributions -- Unbearable grief.
- ISBN
- 0790011034
- 9780790011035
- LCCN
- ^^2006462840
- OCLC
- 74709721
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library