Samoa Guardian
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To mark Samoan Language week, we are featuring a great Samoan resource in our heritage collections whose existence was alerted to me by a sleuth-like colleague. We have a carbon copy typescript of the Samoa guardian from 26 May 1927 to 6 June 1929. Though this transcript finishes in June it provides a particularly valuable historical record of the two years leading up to the disastrous events of Black Saturday . Ref: Auckland Weekly News, Reinforcement for the Administration Police at Samoa, 26 April 1928, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, AWNS-19280426-38-3.