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1935 Western Samoan General Election
General elections were held in Western Samoa on 1 November 1935. Electoral system Two Europeans were elected from a single two-seat constituency. Voting was restricted to Europeans or Samoan-Europeans owning property worth at least £200 or with an annual income of at least £200. Of the European/Samoan-European population of 3,000, only 134 people were registered to vote,Samoan Europeans ''Pacific Islands Monthly'', November 1935, p32 down from 172 in the 1932 elections.Samoan Legislative Council< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samoa
Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa; sm, Sāmoa, and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono Island, Manono and Apolima); and several smaller, uninhabited islands, including the Aleipata Islands (Nu'utele, Nu'ulua, Fanuatapu and Namua). Samoa is located west of American Samoa, northeast of Tonga (closest foreign country), northeast of Fiji, east of Wallis and Futuna, southeast of Tuvalu, south of Tokelau, southwest of Hawaii, and northwest of Niue. The capital city is Apia. The Lapita culture, Lapita people discovered and settled the Samoan Islands around 3,500 years ago. They developed a Samoan language and Samoan culture, Samoan cultural identity. Samoa is a Unitary state, unitary Parliamentary system, parliamentary democracy with 11 Administrative divisions of Samoa, administrative divisions. It is a sovereign state and a member of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1932 Samoan General Election
General elections were held in Western Samoa on 9 November 1932.Samoan elections '' Pacific Islands Monthly'', December 1932, p38 Electoral system In 1930 the constitution was amended to reduce the number of Europeans in the Legislative Council from three to two and to have two Samoans nominated. The two elected European members were elected from a single two-seat constituency, with only Europeans allowed to vote. Voters wer ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irving Carruthers
Irving Hetherington Carruthers (27 October 1884 – 5 July 1974) was a Western Samoan businessman and politician. Biography Carruthers was born in Samoa in 1884, one of five children of Richard and Matua Carruthers. His father was a Scottish solicitor who had immigrated to Samoa from Melbourne in Australia,"Gone but not forgotten", '' Samoa Observer'', 7 December 2014 and worked for Robert Louis Stevenson. He attended the Marist Brothers school in Apia, after which he went into business,Samoan elections '' Pacific Islands Monthly'', December 1932, pp38–39 leasing a cocoa plantation in Malaedono. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Cobcroft
Alan Ridge Cobcroft (died 5 September 1955) was a Western Samoan planter and politician. Biography Cobcroft was the son of parents from the Sydney suburb of Summer Hill.Samoan elections '' Pacific Islands Monthly'', December 1932, pp38–39 He attended and represented the school in , rowing and running. He also played for Newtown in the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Smyth (Samoan Politician)
Alfred George Smyth (17 June 1879 – 27 October 1959) was a New South Wales-born Western Samoan politician. Biography Smyth was born in Maitland, New South Wales and attended the local Sacred Heart School and the government school on Thursday Island. When Smyth was due to return to Western Samoa on 28 December 1929, the Mau movement planned a major reception for him. However, when the police attempted to arrest a member of the procession, a fight erupted and several Mau members were shot dead by the police firing into the crowd. The event became known as Black Saturday. Smyth was then considered for deportation again; although Governor Stephen Allen described him as an "ass", he decided that another stint in exile was unjustified. Smyth planned to contest the 1932 elections. Although he was widely considered the favourite candidate, he was forced to withdraw his candidacy due to his employer's opposition. Smyth did contest the 1935 elections, and was elected with by far th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Dawson (doctor)
Charles McBeth Dawson (died 5 February 1956) was a New Zealand doctor who worked in Niue, Tonga and Western Samoa. He was involved in both world wars, and served as a member of Legislative Council of Samoa between 1938 and 1941. Biography Dawson moved to Niue in 1913,Dr C.M. Dawson leaves islands after long years' service '' Pacific Islands Monthly'', April 1949, p7 before becoming Chief Medical Officer in the New Zealand expeditionary force that occupied German Samoa at the start of . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Herald
''The New Zealand Herald'' is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand. It has the largest newspaper circulation of all newspapers in New Zealand, peaking at over 200,000 copies in 2006, although circulation of the daily ''Herald'' had declined to 100,073 copies on average by September 2019. Its main circulation area is the Auckland region. It is also delivered to much of the upper North Island including Northland, Waikato and King Country. History ''The New Zealand Herald'' was founded by William Chisholm Wilson, and first published on 13 November 1863. Wilson had been a partner with John Williamson in the ''New Zealander'', but left to start a rival daily newspaper as he saw a business opportunity with Auckland's rapidly growing population. He had also split with Williamson because Wilson supported the war against the Māori (which the ''Herald'' termed "the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuala Tulo
Tuala Tulo (died 4 October 1953) was a Western Samoan politician who served as a member of the Fono of Faipule, Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly between 1936 and 1953. Biography Tulo was a member of the anti-colonial Mau movement. He was arrested and subsequently prosecuted for sedition in 1934, leading to a fine. When the Fono of Faipule was reconstituted in 1936, Tulo became a member of the legislature.The Hon. Tuala Tulo ''Pacific Islands Monthly'', December 1953, p126 He was subsequently nominated by the Fono to become a member of the Legislative Council, taking his seat on 16 December.Lauofo Meti (2002) ''Samoa: The Making of the Constitution'', National University of Samoa, p21 He was re-nominated following the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tupua Tamasese Meaʻole
Tupua Tamasese Mea'ole (3 June 1905 – 5 April 1963) was a Western Samoan paramount chief. He held the royal title of Tupua Tamasese from 1929 to 1963, and O le Ao o le Malo (Head of State) jointly with Malietoa Tanumafili II from 1962 until his death the following year. Biography He was born in Vaimoso 1905 as the one of three sons of the paramount chief Tupua Tamasese Lealofi II. He was educated at the Marist school in Apia.Tamasese: Architect of West Samoan Independence ''Pacific Islands Monthly'', May 1963, pp41–47 In 1929, he was installed as Tupua Tamasese when his elder brother and Mau leader, |
Malietoa Tanumafili I
Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili I (1879 – 5 July 1939) was the Malietoa in Samoa from 1898 until his death in 1939. Personal and political life Tanumafili was born in 1880 to Malietoa Laupepa and Sisavai‘i Malupo Niuva‘ai. He attended the London Missionary College in Malua, before continuing his education in Fiji.Last King of Samoa ''Pacific Islands Monthly'', August 1939, p29 He married Momoe Lupeuluiva Meleiseā and had five children: Sisavai‘i Lupeuluiva, Vaimo‘oi'a, Salamāsina, Tanumafili II, and Sāveaali‘i Ioane Viliamu. When his father died in 1898, Tanumafili was declared "King of Samoa" (Tafa'ifa) by , and recognised by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mata'afa Muliufi
Mata'afa Lealaisalanoa Muliufi (died 29 February 1936) was a Western Samoan high chief and politician. He held the Tama-a-Aiga title of Mata'afa from 1915 until his death. Biography Muliufi was born into the Mata'afa family.Death of High Chief Mataafa, O.B.E. '''', April 1936, p30 He attended a Catholic Seminary on Wallis with the intention of becoming a priest, but later abandoned the idea. He added Salanoa to his name when he became one of the ranking chiefs of Falefa, Lealaisalanoa. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935 Elections In Oceania
Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to successfully complete a solo flight from Hawaii to California, a distance of 2,408 miles. * January 13 – A plebiscite in the Territory of the Saar Basin shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Germany. * January 24 – The first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia, United States, by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company. February * February 6 – Parker Brothers begins selling the board game Monopoly in the United States. * February 13 – Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. in the United States. * February 15 – The discovery and clinical development of Prontosil, the first broadly effective antibiotic, is published i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
