R. A. K. Mason, 1905–1971

Barrowman, Rachel

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“…Notably, this decision was made without consulting the Samoan people who were not at all enamoured with New Zealand rule after the military administration's mishandling of the influenza epidemic that caused the death of 22% of the Samoan population in 1918-19. 65 Although New Zealand had not technically acquired the territory in any formal sense, becoming a Mandatory Power was interpreted by New Zealand's leaders as the next best thing. 66 Before the more cogent anti-imperial campaigning by the Labour Party is examined, it is useful to locate some of the earlier attitudes towards Samoa.…”

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“…Forty responses were published by Cohen, offering a rare, and relatively unfiltered, snapshot of public opinion on the Samoan question (even if, as Sinclair has written, it is admitted that 'in those days, [public opinion] meant "middleclass" or "respectable" opinions: those of churchmen, businessmen, politicians'). 68 While many of the respondents replied without hesitation that New Zealand should take control of the islands, a significant proportion also expressed 65 Salesa, 'New Zealand's Pacific', p.157. See also John Ryan McLane, 'Setting a Barricade against the East Wind: Western Polynesia and the 1918 influenza pandemic', PhD thesis, Otago University, 2012, pp.201-205.…”

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“…Both organisations wished to see the system discontinued 64 Gray to Liversedge, 22 Aug. 1922;Liversedge to Gray, 26 Aug. 1922, in Indentured Labour, IT1 443, EX 79/30, ANZ. 65 'The Facts About Samoa', The Outlook, 19 Apr. 1920, pp.17-20. It was also published in the Maoriland Worker, 7 Apr.…”

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“…This, however, involved publishing the Labour Party's condemnatory official report of their visit to Samoa which, if taken as an endorsement of Labour's stance, was consistent with the Presbyterian tradition of opposing indentured labour and the practice of 'blackbirding' in the New Hebrides. 65 Meanwhile the Anglican Church's silence on the issue was more conspicuous given the ties between the Anglican Church and the LMS who dominated missionary activity in Samoa. 66 Granted, the Anglican Church had less of a conscious social and political agenda than the Methodist Church, and New Zealand Anglicans had no direct missionary jurisdiction over Samoa, but this silence is typical if later attitudes on Samoan problems are to be taken into account.…”

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New Zealand’s ‘Critics of Empire’: Domestic Opposition to New Zealand’s Pacific Empire, 1883-1948

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<p>The recent resurgence of interest in the ‘other side’ of New Zealand’s colonial history has reaffirmed the need to view the nation’s history in its Pacific context. This historiographical turn has involved taking seriously the fact that as well as being a colony of Britain, New Zealand was an empire-state and metropole in its own right, possessing a tropical, Oceanic empire. What has yet to have been attempted however is a history of the ‘other side’ of the imperial debate. Thus far the historiography has been weighted towards New Zealand’s imperial and colonial agents. By mapping metropolitan critiques of New Zealand’s imperialism and colonialism in the Pacific (1883-1948), this thesis seeks to rebalance the historiographical ledger. This research adds to our understanding of New Zealand’s involvement in the colonial Pacific by demonstrating that anticolonial struggles were not only confined to the colonies, they were also fought on the metropolitan front by colonial critics at once sympathetic to the claims of the colonised populations, and scathing of their own Government’s colonial policy. These critics were, by virtue of their status as white, metropolitan citizens, afforded greater rights and freedoms than indigenous colonial subjects, and so were able to challenge colonial policy in the public domain. At the same time this thesis demonstrates how colonial criticism reflected national anxieties. The grounds for criticism generally depended on the wider social context. In the nineteenth-century in particular, critiques often contained concerns that New Zealand’s Pacific imperialism would disrupt the sanctity of ‘White New Zealand’, however as the twentieth-century wore on criticism bore the imprint of anti-racism and increasingly supported indigenous claims for self-government. By examining a seventy year period of change, this thesis shows that at every stage of the ‘imperial process’, New Zealand’s imperialism in the Pacific was a subject open to persistent public debate.</p>

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