Samoan Mau leader Taisi Olaf Nelson
The New Zealand City of Auckland that was once the Maori and British Capital of New Zealand before being invaded in the Maori Wars, became in 1929, a base-post of The Samoan Defense League. An Samoan Socialist organization who reported to various Matai and a Mau Council in Western Samoa. The Samoan Defense League was formed by Taisi Olaf Nelson who was educated in law, who then led with an exclusive well known law partner, establishing outlets for 'The New Zealand Samoan Guradian". The NZ based Media company's goal was to publish the Socialist cause and the Mau Samoan agenda.
The new League formed teams and a political base to become a moving party, working first with reopening Samoan-German trade in New Zealand and challenging NZ Reform Party Deportation Orders. Taisi Olaf Nelson became one of the most famous Samoan-New Zealand political prisoners in the 1930s, arrested for his political stances and associations and over his past travels which included meetings in London and Geneva. The Reform Party being corrupted and with aims to risk the New Zealand's national safety on further World War campaigns, did then take Taisi Olaf Nelson into custody who was considered a threat to their plans.
In 1935, the Socialist Labour Party of New Zealand took over the NZ Government (Australian Socialists, Maori Unionists, Mau Samoans, and NZ Labour Party members). When the New Zealand Socialist Labour Party administration took office as the new Government, charges were dropped against Mr. Taisi and his release was immediate. Taisi Olaf Nelson is considered a political spit-fire during a drumming War period against NZ Reform Party Imperialism and he later in 1938 returned to Western Samoa taking office in the Legislative Council in helps of more reform.
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