Anti-Imperialist street rioting in New Zealand began with protesting against the Reform Party Policies and The New Zealand Legion, who supported overseas war. The Socialist Labour and Mau movements, both Pacific Islander and local New Zealand Colonial Trade Unions began NZ riots in commercial hubs in Dunedin, Auckland, and Wellington in 1932, when unemployment was peaking. European Jobless workers were desperate with at least 100,000 New Zealand pakeha citizens relying on private charity, who were not apart of a Faa' Samoan family culture or of Tongan ethnicity, or apart of a community oriented Maori Iwi.
In 1929, just 3 years earlier before the larger NZ riot break-outs in northern cities, the League of Samoa (Samoan Mau Socialist Party) strengthened even further who founded a Samoan Women's Mau Socialist branch.
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