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

Na malaga Manalelei mai Leulumoega i lona aiga i Lotofaga e totoma, e mana’o Tuia’ana Tuiatua Faumuina i se I’e (toga) e alu ai lana malaga e a’ami lona uso taufeagai o Tupuivao. E malaga Manalelei e totoma o mamafa i lona ma’itaga. Ona to’ai lea o Manalelei ia Tupuola i Tanumaleu. Ua taunu’u Manalelei ona fai ai lea o lo la ava ma Tupuola, o le ava o le feiloaiga. Ua uma lo la ava, ona fono lea ile ti. Ua uma ona fa’amatala lea e le tamaita’i ia Tupuola le auga o lana malaga, ona e fia malaga lona ali’i o Faumuina e a’ami Tupuivao o fa’asala i Tutuila, ae leai se toga e ave ai le malaga a lona ali’i. Ua toe pau lava ia o mea o lo’o ia Faumuina ua sau ma ia, ole mutia ma le ma’a. Ona soisoi loa lea o le ali’i o Tupuola ma fa’apea atu, a! matua leo malie lau tala. O le’a fo’i le malaga a le tamaita’i o Manalelei, ona fai ai lea o a la upu ma Tupuola. Ona fa’apea atu lea o Tupuola ile tamaita’i, sauia o lea tu’u lou igoa o Manalelei, ae o le’a e igoa ia “Talaleomalie” ona ole “malie o lau tala” i mea na’e sau ma oe. O I’e ia e lua, ole I’e e ave ai le malaga a lou ali’i i Tutuila. Ole tasi I’e, ole I’e o le nofo a lou alo. A alo oe le tamaita’i ona fa’aigoa lea ia “Fonoti”, e manatua ai lo ta’ua ava na “Fono nei ile ti”. Ua uma lo la ava taumavae ua fono fo’i ile ti.

TUI-FITI LE TUPU ANAMUA O FITI:
1. Usu Tui-Fiti ia Si’uuilasisifo le alo o Tui-Atua Puluitua faae’e le gafa o Fata po’o Fata-igoatele (tama). (Suafa “Fata” o Lotofaga le Aiga Salevalasi)
2. Usu #2 Fata po’o Fataigoatele ia Sinasinavaiao le alo o Tuiatua Fogalepulu o Etemuli faae’e le gafa, o Fata (ii), po’o Fata-levave (tama).
3. Usu Fata (ii), po’o Fatalevave ile tama’ita’i o Fulu’ula-ale-matoto o le ilamutu o Tui-Fiti i Lotofaga, fa’aee le gafa: o Leu (teine).
4. Usuia Leu e Matasepu o Lepa, fa’aee le gafa: o Tau’iliili (tama), ma Talalaufala (teine) (Ona tofia lea o Tauili’ili e lona tama, e alu i Amaile e tapega le a’ai e taunu’u iai le Ali’i o Aiga).
TUI-ATUA LE TUPU O ATUA:
5. Usu mai le Tuiatua Fa’asoutele o Ti’avea ia Talalaufala, fa’aee le gafa: o Fililesalue (teine).
6. Usuia Fililesalue e Leali’ifanovalevale i Palauli, fa’aee le gafa: o Popoai (teine), Taufaito’a (teine).
TUI-TOGA LE TUPU O TONGA:
7. Usuia Popoai e le #1 Tui-Toga (viii), faaee le gafa o o Togialelei (maliu, e le’i usu gafa), ma Tuiavi’i (tama: fa’avae a gafa o Tuifa’asisina, Tauaaletoa ma Unisialetoa)
8. Usuia Taufaito’a e le #2 Tui-Toga (viii), fa’aee le gafa o Tui-Toga Puipuifatu (tama).
9. Usu Tui-Toga Puipuifatu ia Pulu-mata-moana le alo o Hulu-a-talala o Toga, fa’aee le gafa o Tui-Toga Manaia (tama: na usu ia Nafanua), ma Tui-Toga Faisautele (tama).
TUI-MANU’A LE TUPU ANAMUA O MANU’A:
10. Usu Tui-Toga Faisautele ia Painu’ulasi le alo o Tui-Manu’a Ali’atama le Tupu o Manu’a ma Manu le afafine o Lu Fasiaitu o Uafato, 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:
11. Usuia Vaetoefaga le alo o Tui-Toga Faisautele e Tuia’ana Tamalelagi le atali’i o Tuia’ana Tagaloa Selaginato ma Vaetamasoali’i, fa’aee le gafa o Salamasina (teine).
(Ole Ulua’i Tupu Tafa’ifa o Samoa, na e'e iai Papa ole Tuia’ana, Tuiatua, Vaetamasoalii, ma le Gatoaitele mai ia Nafanua, male tamafai a So’oaemalelagi Levalasi le fa’avae ole Aiga Salevalasi, e uso o la tina ma Tuia’ana Tamalelagi na usu muamua ia Namoaitele maua le tamaulumatua o Tuala, Ole Alii o Aiga, ma le fa’avae ole Aiga Sa-Tuala. O Aiga nei e lua o Samoa. Na mavae ai le ulua’i Tupu Tafa’ifa o Salamasina ia Aiga ma Tumua i lona fa’atafa i Lotofaga: O Aiga e lua, ua Pa’ia ole Aiga Sa-Levalasi ma le Aiga S

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 also 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 Vaimoso the last in 1942. The founder and leader of Samoa Democratic Party in 1953. 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

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