New Zealand Herald: Samoans at Parliament
photo by Mark Mitchell
In 1976, New Zealand Anti-Socialists protested a new browning of Auckland and Northern parts of the NZ islands calling it a recolonization of the southern corner of the Polynesian Triangle (Aotearoa New Zealand). A study was done by a British woman in 1982 taking data from the New Zealand Government immigration authorities to understand the mass increase of Polynesian descendants found to be mostly from Western Samoa.
The immigration studies shown a "Multi-casual Migration Nexus" (by British Evelyn Kallen) between Western Samoa and Aotearoa New Zealand, a political friendship immigration bridge.
According to another New Zealand study the immigration bridge that Dr. Evelyn Kallen discovered was approved by the NZ Labour Party, Maori Unionists, Australian Socialists, and Western Samoan Mau Socialists of the 1920-1940s, allowing free access to their Polynesian Samoan neighbors. The Pacific Socialist parties of the 1920s-1940s who was led by Prime Minister Joseph Savage had left ways to stay connected politically who's rival was the Reform Party (today known as The National Party).
"Her book, Evelyn Kallen... it's hard to put a finger on what the hell her real expertise was. It's like someone asked her to find out how Samoans were entering and establishing so easily in New Zealand. There's a lot of word play, much of the book is useless information. I guess you need lots of word space to dance around immigration topics so that you don't sound too racist"
The 1980s studies further analyzed that Western Samoans were still connected to the politically powerful Trade Unions of New Zealand who ran north island factory. It was also found that in 1976 that there were in place international New Zealand scholarship programs with a matching testing system in Western Samoa. This meant that the Samoans had the ability to pass identical examination standards and could easily advance in New Zealand without the little-sister education programs that many Aucklander's used to prep their own youth, indicating that no-barrier, paperwork or otherwise, stand in the way of a continuous influx of Western Samoan Pacific islanders.
A report by the Samoa Times, a Samoan News Company in Northern New Zealand, wrote of a Magistrate police scandal attempting at illegal harassment citizens in the suburbs, with further news that a severe reduction in Samoan applicants numbers were to be allowed into the area. The scandal was denounced in New Zealand and the New Zealand Government immediately created an amnesty policy for Western Samoan Polynesians.