Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III

Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III in front of the octagonal Mau office in Vaimoso village, near Apia, 1929. (Photograph by Alfred John Tattersall)

Tupua Tamasese Lealofi-o-a'ana III (4 May 1901 - 29 December 1929) was a high chief of Samoa who was a leader of the country's pro-independent Mau movement during the early 1900s.[1] He was fatally shot by New Zealand police during a Mau procession on 28 December 1929 in Apia which turned violent, in what became known as Black Saturday.[2]

Mau carrying the coffin of Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III. Standing to the right wearing a single white stripe on his lava-lava, the Mau uniform, is Mata'afa Faumuina Fiame Mulinu'u I, who later became the President of the Mau.

His tomb, constructed of black stones in a tier is situated in Lepea village beside the main road and 5mins from Apia.

His eldest son was Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV (1922-1983), who served two terms as Samoa's prime minister.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ Guardians of the West by Albert Wendt.Retrieved 21 February 2009
  2. ↑ "New Zealand in Samoa". New Zealand History Online. Retrieved 21 February 2009.
  3. ↑ Fortune, Kate (2000). "Tupua Tamases Lealofi IV". In Brij V. Lal. The Pacific Islands : an encyclopedia ([Repr.]. ed.). Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. p. 286-287. ISBN 082482265X.

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