CHAPTER IV — ‘A MATTER OF INTERPRETATION’ - ‘Guardians and Wards’ : (A study of the origins, causes, and the first two years of the Mau in Western Samoa.)

Content Partner: Victoria University of Wellington. And so the years passed. The fight continued. So much suffering, so many mistakes, so much misunderstanding. Betrayals. And a few real martyrs. Why did it all have to happen that way? Some still argue that it had to be; some, that Nelson was to blame for the whole mess; others, that New Zealand (and Richardson) were at fault; the more ‘scholarly...