Michael Field
@MichaelFieldNZ
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Journalist & writer on South Pacific. Invincible strangers: Biography of 20th Century Samoa. https://t.co/8o6wQKesC3
Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa
Joined April 2015
Why is @1NewsNZ making such a fuss about @BLACKCAPS in Zimbabwe? Its pointless farce. Took this when they won $20m in a test, Vitori another $20m for man of match. Equal to about US$20. Fleming shoved me for taking this pix. Silly cricket, still.
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Fiji judge: “. evidence suggesting an involvement of a foreign drug cartel comprising Russians, Latinos and Aussies working in collaboration with Fijian counterparts. However, there is no proof that a Russian mafia gang was involved.”
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A straight con from @NewWorld - seduce customers to collect stickers for product, but when redeeming said product, it not available - hundreds short. This grocer duopoly is nothing more than a scam. They collect the cash.
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US & Cook Islands "announce our cooperation to advance scientific research and the responsible development of seabed mineral resources." Washington was never worried about China in Cooks, just wanted deep sea bed for its companies.
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RT @TheShovel: Defence Minister Confirms New Japanese-Built Warships Will Have Those Fancy Arse-Warming Sci-Fi Dunnies. .
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Japanese manufacturer Mitsubishi has won the race to build Australia's next line of warships, thanks to the top-of-the-line military technology the shipbuilder promised to include in the barthroom...
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No trials were ever held, just a quick coroner's court hearing which essentially came up with nothing. The policeman is known, as is his son, much later involved in another political killing.
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And who was the New Zealand policeman who murdered Tupua Tamasese. ?.
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Grumpy old coots shaking fist at solitary cloud.
Amazing Nelson turnout for New Zealand First, packed house, a rising tide of support.
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Appalling weather in the deep south is pushing big seas north with many Pacific islands in French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Tonga and Fiji warning of coastal damaging swells. Graphic from
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RT @stephendziedzic: RMI President Hilda Heine and Samoa's caretaker PM Fiame Naomi Mata'afa both indicating they may boycott PIF leaders m….
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Fiji's bid to extradite New Zealand lawyer Christopher Pryde to have criminal charges could get extremely drawn out & expensive for Suva.
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Dont forget NZ also despatched an armed force to Fiji at one point, with machine gun and naval vessel, to suppress striking Indians. we've quite a record.
@MichaelFieldNZ Thanks for this. Possibly shades of the rioting on Banaba in '25, which was so serious the HMS Laburnum was sent. A completely neglected episode in our military history. I know Banaba wasn't formally ours but we were essentially handling the security situation.
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RT @fijitimes: Acting Attorney-general Siromi Turaga withdrew a ministerial statement he was supposed to make today on the prosecution of t….
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RT @liedmyway2top: From a pupil at Auckland Grammar. The entire school has been graffitied over saying f**k Seymour and uphold the treaty….
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@MichaelFieldNZ Fascinating and sad, thanks for the reference. I visited a few sites associated with the assassination of Larsen recently in Niue. The 95 year-old sister of one the assassins is still alive in Liku and compos mentis!.
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I've written on the "riots" and abuse: it was pure racism. NZ hanged a couple of Chinese at around the same time - the jail it happened still stands!
@MichaelFieldNZ Do you think you'll bring out a book on the subject? I think there'd be wide interest. On another random Samoa subject: I recently came across a report on the Chinese riot & police shooting in Apia in 1929. I had no idea about this precursor to Black Saturday. Understudied?.
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