The plan was first announced by the Samoan government in September 2007 and was confirmed on 18 April 2008 when Samoa's parliament passed the Road Transport Reform Act 2008.

In its political relations with the Samoan people, Solf ’ s government showed similar qualities of intelligence and care as in the economic arena.

He skillfully grafted Samoan institutions into the new system of colonial government by the acceptance of native customs.

However, when a dissident Samoan matai ( chief ) exceeded the limits of his considerable tolerance, Solf stepped in assertively, pronouncing that “... there was only one government in Samoa ,” and it was him.

Samoan Language Week ( Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa ) is an annual celebration of the language in New Zealand supported by the government and various organisations including UNESCO.

In 1899 he was posted to the Samoan Islands, where he served as council chairman in the provisional government of the municipality of Apia, Samoa.

Solf included Samoan traditions in his government programs, but never hesitated to step in assertively, including banishment from Samoa in severe cases, when his position as the Kaiser's deputy was challenged.

This will soon change, as the Samoan government will move the International Date Line east of the country.

In 1990 the Samoan government gave the remote village of Falealupo an ultimatum to build a better school or teachers would be removed and their children would not be educated.

In what the Fijian government saw as a humiliation, he was forced to withdraw his nomination during the balloting on 9 February 2003, when Samoan candidate Tuiloma Neroni Slade outpolled him.

In the Treaty of Berlin of 1889 thus a joint protectorate or condominium was declared, with a European / American chief justice, a municipal council for Apia, and with the " free right of the natives to elect their Chief or King " as the signatory to the act, thus the treaty professed to recognize a Samoan independent government.

Samoan oral history, however, extends only as far back as 1000 A. D. Whatever occurred between 1500 B. C.

In reality, however, the Mau was built upon the traditional forms of Samoan political organisation.

The Samoan Gangster Party, however, never got in the ring or confronted Fatu before he was repackaged and the whole angle was dropped.

This approximation is based on the so-called " Lapita " pottery that has been dated to that time ; it is possible, as the natives suggest, however, that the Samoan Islands were in fact settled some time prior to 1000 BC and that the original settlement actually predates the arrival of those to whom the pottery was culturally relevant.

Classes are taught in English, however all students also take part in a Samoan language programme.

In 2007, Peters was bestowed with the chiefly Samoan title Vaovasamanaia, meaning " beautiful, handsome, awesome, delighted and joyful.

Samoan team performing Siva Tau before the game against South Africa during the 2007 Rugby World Cup.

Under their new coach, the All Blacks legend Michael Jones ( himself of Samoan descent and a Samoan international ), Samoa worked hard to create a side able to compete effectively in the 2007 Rugby World Cup, where they were grouped with England, South Africa, Tonga and the USA.

In the 2007 World Cup there were 14 New Zealand born players in the Samoan squad, and five Samoan born players in the New Zealand squad.

In 2007 he started 3SX Entertainment ( Samoan Strong Style Xtreme Wrestling and Entertainment ) in American Samoa where work on a Pro Wrestling and MMA Dojo is ongoing.

A 2003 petition asking the Parliament of New Zealand to repeal the Act attracted 100, 000 signatures, and the Samoan rights group Mau Sitiseni filed a petition on the issue with the United Nations Human Rights Committee in 2007.

A key event occurred in 1908, in a dispute between the German colonial administration and the Malo o Samoa, or Samoan Council of Chiefs, over the establishment of a copra business owned and controlled by native Samoans.

When the Montreal territory closed up, the two cousins signed with the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico and became The Samoan Swat Team ( Samu & Fatu ).

When the Montreal territory closed up the two cousins signed with the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico and became The Samoan Swat Team: Samu & Fatu.

Most Samoan Seventh Day Adventists planned to continue to observe Sabbath on the official Sunday after Samoa's crossing the date line in December 2011, but the church in Samatau village decided to adjust and observe Sabbath on the " new " Saturday.

The Manu Siva Tau is a Samoan war dance, performed by the Samoa's sporting teams before each match.

The clumsy handling of Samoa's governance, the slow and deliberate erosion of traditional Samoan social structures by successive administrators, and a general failure to understand and respect Samoan culture also sowed the seeds for a revitalised resistance to colonial rule.

The groundswell of support among Samoans for the Mau came from the leadership of Samoan matai, the heads of families in Samoa's traditional socio-political structure.

After college, Tulafono worked as a legal assistant at American Samoa's Attorney General's Office and as an administrative assistant for the Secretary of Samoan Affairs.

Western Samoa's triumph in the 1991 Rugby World Cup was inspired by their assistant coach Bryan Williams who was a New Zealand born ( but of Samoan descent ) All Black great of the 1970s.

The Samoan Islands — today divided into Samoa and American Samoa — were west of the date line until 1892, when King Malietoa Laupepa was persuaded by American traders to adopt the American date, being three hours behind California, to replace the former Asian date, being four hours ahead of Japan.

The oldest date so far from prehistoric remains in the Samoan Islands has been calculated from archaeology in Samoa to a likely true age of circa 1, 050 BCE from a Lapita site at Mulifanua wharf on Upolu island.

Under this new law, Samoan citizens who were in New Zealand at any point on 14 September 1982 ( legally or illegally ) or arrived in New Zealand as permanent residents after that date were eligible to be granted New Zealand citizenship, but other Samoans born before 1949 and their children were not.

* English pussy ( pet name for cat ) and Samoan pusi ( cat )

In all, he brought about more than 50 treaties, including the settlement of the Samoan dispute, as a result of which the United States secured Tutuila, with a harbor in the Pacific ; a definitive Alaskan boundary treaty in 1903 ; the negotiation of reciprocity treaties with Argentina, France, Germany, Cuba, and the British West Indies ; the negotiation of new treaties with Spain ; and the negotiation of a treaty with Denmark for the cession of the Danish West India Islands.

Orans concludes that Freeman's basic criticisms, that Mead was duped by ceremonial virgin Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' amu ( who later swore to Freeman that she had played a joke on Mead ) were false for several reasons: first, Mead was well aware of the forms and frequency of Samoan joking ; second, she provided a careful account of the sexual restrictions on ceremonial virgins that correspond's to Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' auma ' a's account to Freeman, and third, that Mead's notes make clear that she had reached her conclusions about Samoan sexuality before meeting Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' amu.

Samoan folklore tells of the arrival of two maidens from Fiji who brought the art of tatau, or tattoo, to Samoa, whence came the traditional Samoan malofie ( malofie is also known as pe ' a for men and as malu for women ).

In 2002, New Zealand's prime minister Helen Clark formally apologized for two incidents during the period of New Zealand's administration: a failure in 1918 to quarantine the SS Talune, which carried the ' Spanish ' flu ' to Samoa, leading to an epidemic which devastated the Samoan population, and the shooting of leaders of the non-violent Mau movement during a ceremonial procession in 1929.

Therefore, in the 49-seat parliament, all 47 Samoan Members of Parliament are also matai, performing dual roles as chiefs and modern politicians, with the exception of the two seats reserved for non-Samoans.

The Samoan Government has called for deregulation of the financial sector, encouragement of investment, and continued fiscal discipline.

Samoa has no formal defense structure or regular armed forces ; informal defense ties exist with New Zealand, which is required to consider any Samoan request for assistance under the 1962 Treaty of Friendship.

He was also known for having paved the way for settlement of the Samoan question with Great Britain and Germany, and for upholding the special interest of the United States in the Hawaiian Islands.

: The word traveled swiftly, up and down the coast, and by nightfall the downtown streets were crowded with people who had come from as far away as South Point and the Waipio Valley to see for themselves if the rumor was really true-that Lono had, in fact, returned in the form of a huge drunken maniac who dragged fish out of the sea with his bare hands and then beat them to death on the dock with a short-handled Samoan war club.

The Vailima estate was purchased in 1900 as official residence for the German governor and, after British / Dominion confiscation, served successively as residence for the New Zealand administrator and for the Samoan head of state after independence.

Furthermore, East Polynesian was found to more likely have emerged out of extra-Samoan Ellicean than out of Samoa itself, an astonishing suggestion given the long assumption of a Samoan homeland for the origins of East Polynesian speech.

The table below demonstrates this with the words for ' sky ', ' north wind ', ' woman ', ' house ' and ' parent ' in a representative selection of languages: Tongan ; Niuean ; Samoan ; Sikaiana ; Takuu ; Rapanui language ; Tahitian ; Cook Islands Māori ( Rarotongan ); Māori ; North Marquesan ; South Marquesan ; Hawaiian and Mangarevan.

As a Samoan Fa ' afafine says, " But I would like to pursue a masters degree with a paper on homosexuality from a Samoan perspective that would be written for educational purposes, because I believe some of the stuff that has been written about us is quite wrong.

* Following the 2009 Samoan earthquake and subsequent tsunami the RNZAF deployed several P-3 Orions initially to assess the damage and search for bodies in the immediate aftermath of the incident.

The concept exists in many societies, including traditional Fijian, Māori, Samoan, Rapanui, Tahitian, Hawaiian, and Tongan cultures, in most cases using a recognisably similar word, though the Rotuman term for this concept is " ha ' a ".