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GAFA O FONOTI LE TUPU TAFA’IFA O SAMOA LE AIGA PA'IA O SA-LEVALASI I LOTOFAGA ATUA, MA LE AIGA SATUALA MA SALA.

Mafua’aga O Le Suafa: Fonoti

Ua sauni le tamaitai o Manalelei Talaleomalie mo Leulumoega, ona fai loa fo’i lea o lo la ava taumavae ma Tupuola, ua uma lo la ava ua fono nei i le ti. Sa masani Samoa anamua ona fai umu ti, e eli le lua ona lau mai lea o le ti-vao ua lafo iai pei lava ose fa’avevela lona fa’atinoina. O le tasi fo’i o aganu’u a Samoa anamua, a alu le usu e ave ai fo’i ma le fono o le ava pe’a uma. Ona fai lea o a la upu taumavae a Tupuola, ma Talaleomalie Manalelei. Ua fa’apea atu Tupuola i le tama’ita’i, Sauia o le a e fo’i i lou Ali’i ma I’e ia e lua. O le tasi I’e e malaga ai Tuia’ana Faumuina e a’ami lona uso taufeagai. “Ae a alo oe le tama’ita’i ona fa’aigoa lea o lou alo ia Fonoti (Fono-ti), e fa’amanatu ai lo ta ava na fono nei i le ti”. O le tasi o I’e, o le I’e o le nofo a lou alo i le Tui-A’ana. Ua taunu’u Talaleomalie Manalelei i Leulumoega i lona ali’i, ua fola atu I’e o lana toma’aga ma fa’amatala a la upu taumavae ma Tupuola. Ua soisoi nei Tui-A’ana Faumuina Tupufia ma lona leo maofa e fa’apea, A! o Pepeve’a I’e na.

TUI-FITI LE TUPU O FITI:
1. Usu le Tui-Fiti Tupu o Fiti ia Sinasamoa le afafine o Loa ia Sinaletigae o Fagaloa, fa’aee le gafa: o Sinavaitu’u (teine), ma Latu (tama).
TUI-TOGA LE TUPU O TONGA:
2. Usuia Sinavaitu’u e le Tui-Toga tupu o Tonga, fa’aee le gafa: o Faisautele Tui-Toga.
TUI-MANU’A LE TUPU O MANU’A:
3. Usu Faisautele Tui-Toga ia Painu’ulasi le afafine o Tui-Manu’a Ali’atama le Tupu o Manu’a ia Manu Lu, fa’aee le gafa: o Vaetoefaga (teine), ma Ulualofaiga (tama).
TUI-A’ANA TAMALELAGI: FA’AVAE LE AIGA SA-TUALA; MA LE AIGA SA-LEVALASI ATUA:
4. Usuia Vaetoefaga e le Tuia’ana Tamalelagi le atali’i o Tuia’ana Tagaloa Selaginato ia Vaetamasoali’i, fa’aee le gafa: o Tuioneoupolu (tama), ma Salamasina (teine: ma le tamafai a Levalasi So’oaemalelagi: O Le ulua’i Tupu Tafa’ifa o Samoa. O Tuia’ana Tamalelagi ma Levalasi So’oaemalelagi e uso o la tina).
SALAMASINA LE ULUA’I TUPU TAFA’IFA O SAMOA: LE AIGA PAIA O SA-LEVALASI ATUA:
5. Usuia Salamasina le ulua’i Tupu Tafa’ifa o Samoa e Tonumaipe’a Tapumanaia o Auala i Savai’i, fa’aee le gafa: o Fofoaivaoese (teine), Tapulesatele (tama).
6. Usuia Fofoaivaoese e Tauatamaniulaita o Satupa’itea i Savai’i, fa’aee le gafa: o Taufau (teine: na tafea lana utu), Sina (teine: na au lana utu), ma Asomua Lemalama (tama).
7. Usuia Sina e Tito’iaivao o Faleatiu i A’ana, fa’aee le gafa: o Tuia’ana Faumuina ma Le Tupufia (tama: ulumatua ‘O le Alii o aiga’: ‘O Le Tupufia a Tuia’ana Faumuina; au’a e fia Tupu uma lana fanau e to’atolu).
8.] USU Tuia’ana Faumuina ma Le Tupufia ia Manalelei po’o Talaleomalie le afafine o Vaovasa o Gataivai i Savai’i, fa’aee le gafa: o FONOTI (tama: ulumatua ‘O Le Ali’i o Aiga’: Le Tupufia: O Le Tupu Tafa’ifa o Samoa. O le mavaega a Fonoti le Tupu Tafa’ifa; “O Papa, O Le A Ia Te A’u Ma La’u Fanau, A’o Le Ao Le Tonumaipe’a ia Tole’afoa Ma Le Fanau”).
9. Toe usu Tuia’ana Faumuina ma Le Tupufia ia Tu’umaleulua’iali’i le afafine o Manu’aifua i Afega, fa’aee le gafa: o Samala’ulu (teine: Le Tupufia).
10. Toe usu Tuia’ana Faumuina ma Le Tupufia ia Atamulau le afafine o Segi i Amoa, Fa’asaleleaga i Savai’i, fa’aee le gafa: o Va’afusuaga Tole’afoa (tama: Le Tupufia).
FONOTI LE TUPU TAFA’IFA O SAMOA: LE AIGA PAIA O SA-LEVALASI I LOTOFAGA ATUA:
11.] USU Fonoti Tupu Tafa’ifa o Samoa ia Fuatino le afafine o To’alepaiali’i i Satapuala, fa’aee le gafa: o MUAGUTUTI'A (tama: ulumatua ‘O le Alii o aiga’: Tofiga a Muagututi’a mai i lona tama o Fonoti; O le a e alu ma lou Muagututi’a, lou Fuatino, lou Faumuina ma lou Melegalenu’u. E te nofo i Mulifusi. E te tua ia Sa-Tuala, ae tausi oe e

The Petition for Self-Government in Samoa by leader Hon Fonoti in 1944, and the United Nations Approval on the 13th December 1946. The Newly Samoan Flag was Raised on the 1st June 1948. Samoa’s Freedom!

The petition for self-government in 1944 by leader Faipule Hon Fonoti that presented directly to New Zealand Governor-General Sir Cyral Newall in June, and much more directly to the Prime Minister the Rt. Hon Peter Fraser on the 20-26th of December the same year.

While engaged to all his successful Business Activities, Hon J.B. Fonoti was also a Successful Politician. He was the leader of ‘The Fono a Faipule’ of Samoa from 1939 to 1947. And was also a ‘Member of the Legislative Assembly’ from 1948 to 1952 and 1955 to 1957. And in 1954 he was a member of the ‘Working Committee of the Constitutional Convention of the Government of Samoa. And was the leader of the MAU for Atua also from 1935 to 1942. When the New Zealand Governor-General Sir. Cyril Newall and New Zealand Prime Minister Mr. Peter Fraser visited Samoa in 1944, leader Hon J.B. Fonoti presented them directly a Petition for Self-Government in Samoa. While welcoming, leader Hon J.B. Fonoti and on behalf of the Fono of Faipule, expressed solid criticism of New Zealand policy.

There was, then, in Western Samoa from 1942 onwards a growing and audible demand for self-government, a demand by no means silenced by New Zealand paternalism.

In 1944 that which had long been familiar to experts was made explicit. In June of that year the Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall, paid his third visit to the territory, and Samoan spokesman, while welcoming him on behalf of the Fono of Faipule, expressed solid criticism of New Zealand policy. “The Samoans, said leader Hon Fonoti, had been denied even that element of self-government which had been established in Tonga and Fiji and in Eastern Samoa. The terms of the mandate have imposed on New Zealand the solemn duty of educating the Samoans to self-government and the terms of the Atlantic Charter express the same aim for the small nations of the world. Thirty years have passed since New Zealand took over Western Samoa and we are appreciably no nearer this goal. We wish to assure your Excellency that the Samoan people are loyal to the Union Jack, His Majesty the King and the British Empire, but after thirty years of New Zealand administration during which our justified aspirations were ignored and our requests for improvements were rejected, we have lost confidence in the trusteeship of New Zealand which has shown a lack of interest in the territory and treated its people as stepchildren. In the Governor’s phrase, - a nettle is appearing”.

In the month that followed, political activity continued, and the Faipule leader Hon Fonoti formed a standing committee to keep in touch with the workings of the administration: move with sinister precedents. In the view of an experienced observer; it was not far removed from the formation of another Mau. By this time, however, it was known that the Prime Minister himself was about to visit the mandated territory. He was known to have a keen personal interest in its administration, of which since 1940 he had been the ministerial head; but the tremendous pressure of war issues during the ensuing years had kept his main attention elsewhere.

In 1944, as the war situation eased and as politics in Western Samoa grew more tense, he carried out a long-deferred intention to discuss the matter on the spot with those most concerned. This visit of the Prime Minister Peter Fraser to Western Samoa and his discussions with a special Fono in December “proved a Crucial Event in New Zealand’s Relations with the Samoans and in the Evolution of New Zealand’s conception of trusteeship”.

In the first place, the Samoans formulated their political demands for themselves, as well as for the New Zealand Government, with unmistakable clarity. The Faipule leader Hon Fonoti presented to

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