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    Ta'isi Olaf Frederick Nelson (24 February 1883 – 28 February 1944) was a Samoan businessman and politician. He was one of the founding leaders of the...
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    constituency of Gaga'ifomauga. Safune is the birthplace of Mau leader Olaf Frederick Nelson and the filming location of Moana (1926 film), one of the first...
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    widespread support. One of the Mau leaders was Olaf Frederick Nelson, a half Samoan and half Swedish merchant. Nelson was eventually exiled during the late 1920s...
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    blame of the Western Samoa unrest on the anti-colonial activist Olaf Frederick Nelson. During this period he served first on the Temporary Slavery Commission...
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    administration. One of the Mau leaders was Olaf Frederick Nelson, a half Samoan and half Swedish merchant. Nelson was exiled by the administration during...
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  • the University of Auckland. Nelson was born in Samoa, the daughter of Olaf Nelson, a political leader in Western Samoa, and Rosabel Moors. She had two...
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    administration of Samoa were sent into exile in New Zealand, including Olaf Frederick Nelson. Samoa received its independence from New Zealand on 1 January 1962...
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    reported as being one of the main drivers of the Mau movement. When Olaf Frederick Nelson formed the Mau, Tamasese joined, and in 1927 appeared before a commission...
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  • Aggie Grey Alexia Hilbertidou Maposua Rudolf Keil Gustavia Lui Olaf Frederick Nelson Matai’a Lynn Netzler Tupua Fred Wetzell Donna Rose Addis Tuifuisa’a...
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  • footballer Novella Nelson (1939–2017), American actress O. B. Nelson (1850–1922), Danish-American politician Olaf Frederick Nelson (1883–1944), Samoan...
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    during a Mau parade in Apia. He married Noue in 1934, a daughter of Olaf Frederick Nelson. The couple had four children; two daughters and two sons. In 1936...
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    Spafford Richardson.: 73  In late 1926 he attended a meeting with Olaf Frederick Nelson and other independence activists at the home of Samuel Meredith...
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    leader of Samoa's independence movement during the early 1900s, Olaf Frederick Nelson was born in Safune. In pre-history, the village of Safotu was settled...
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    pre-history, the village of Safotu was a settlement for Tongans. Olaf Frederick Nelson, another exiled leader of the Mau movement in the 1920s, was born...
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    Mau leaders in the 1920s was Olaf Frederick Nelson, a merchant born in Safune to a Samoan mother and Swedish father. Nelson was also exiled from Samoa....
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  • movement. Olaf Frederick Nelson, one of the leaders of the new Mau movement, was a successful merchant of mixed Swedish and Samoan heritage. Nelson was the...
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    contested the elections. The three elected members were the merchants Olaf Frederick Nelson and George Westbrook, and the plumber Arthur Williams. Results for...
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    village, Savai'i Colonial buildings in Samoa Home of Mau leader Olaf Frederick Nelson on Upolu island, circa 1936 Tivoli Hotel in the capital Apia, 1896...
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    Charles Dawson and Olaf Frederick Nelson would not stand; Nelson due to ill-health and Dawson having left the Samoa. However, Nelson did eventually contest...
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    administration. In late 1926 Tuimaleali'ifano attended a meeting with Olaf Frederick Nelson and other independence activists at the home of Samuel Meredith...
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  • family of patriot, Mau leader and businessman Olaf Frederick Nelson. The library is named in Nelson's honour. Savai'i Public Library is the only branch...
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  • dates back to 1886 when customary land was sold to the family of Olaf Frederick Nelson. The village claims that the land is custom held and was never lawfully...
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    March 1928, elected member Olaf Frederick Nelson proposed a motion that Samoans should be represented in the Council. Nelson had made the same proposal...
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  • appointed to the Council by the Administrator to replace elected member Olaf Frederick Nelson, who had been deported. Prior to the 1929 elections, Johnston resigned...
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  • one of three people elected to the council. Like the other two, Olaf Frederick Nelson and George Westbrook, he was a member of the anti-colonial Mau movement...
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  • did not run for re-election in 1929. Like fellow elected members Olaf Frederick Nelson and Arthur Williams, he was a member of the anti-colonial Mau movement...
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  • Party, but was defeated by Olaf Frederick Nelson and Charles Dawson. He contested the 1941 elections, but lost to Nelson and Amando Stowers. In 1944...
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  • Scotland. Her grandfather was Samoan businessman and politician Ta'isi Olaf Frederick Nelson. She met her husband John Atherton in Edinburgh and they had two...
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    including the inquest into Black Saturday and the deportation of Olaf Frederick Nelson. After independence in 1962, New Zealand expatriates continued to...
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  • in Western Samoa. In 1928 he joined O.F. Nelson and Co, working for his brother-in-law Olaf Frederick Nelson, before leaving in 1934 to establish a dairy...
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