References
Chapter 1
The German Commemoration Service , Mulinu ’ u , 3 July 1932
Ceremony details obtained primarily from newspaper article , “ Germans Settlers Hold an Impressive Ceremony ,” Samoa Herald , Apia , Samoa , Friday 8 July , 1932 .
Identities of people listed in captions , as with identifications made throughout this publication , are derived from research and cross referencing across many collections , family albums and family sources , combined with guidance from knowledgeable descendants and old-timers from Samoa ( see Acknowledgements , pp . 11-12 ).
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Chapter 2 Rudolf ‘ Pakigi ’ Berking Sources of information for this chapter included :
i ) “ Cyclopedia of Samoa ,” McCarron , Stewart & Co , Sydney , 1907 .
ii ) Information supplied by Mr Klaus Berking and descendants of Rudolf Berking .
iii ) Interviews in 2013-2014 with Mrs Trude Barford ( nee Stünzner ), Mr David Barford and Mr Albi Stünzner who provided personal recollections of Rudolf Berking .
iv ) Interviews in 2013 with Mrs Agnes Sasse Heeney .
v ) Lagi Braune , “ Samoa : My Second Life ,” selfpublished , Apia , 2007 . Especially for material relating to Caroline Berking ( nee Netzler ).
vi ) Pacific Islands Monthly , June , 1972 , Obituary Rudolf Berking , p . 129 .
vii ) Archives New Zealand , Wellington , personal file and other files related to R . P . Berking , from First World War , inter-war period , and Second World War , from Department of Defence , Department of External Affairs , and Department of Justice .
viii ) Archives New Zealand , Wellington , files related to Reinhold Hofmann , 1914-1920 from Department of Defence and Department of External Affairs .
ix ) A key document that unlocked many identities , especially in photos from Motuihe Island internment camp taken by Mr Hofmann , was a typed list of captions prepared by POW Mr Alfred Schultz as a companion to his photo album from First World War internment , held by Schultz descendants the Kronfeld Parr family , of Auckland . The captions include supplementary information and are of high historical interest .
x ) Emily Parr “ Veins : A Kronfeld History ,” Auckland , 2012 , privately published .
xi ) Information on Concordia Club meetings and Apia internment of Germans on the outbreak of the Second World War ( and on many other historical aspects of German settlement ) derived in part from interviews with the late Mrs Elfriede Reid ( nee Meiritz ), formerly of Samoa then Auckland , on 21 / 3 / 2013 , 28 / 3 / 2013 , 28 / 05 / 2013 , 16 / 9 / 2013 , 25 / 10 / 2013 , 10 / 12 / 2013 and 3 / 3 / 2014 .
Though Concordia Club regular gatherings were men-only affairs in the 1930s , Elfriede attended meetings with her mother , club caterer Mrs Mary Meiritz ( nee Smith ).
xii ) Berking meeting with NZ Prime Minister Fraser on Somes Island on 20 January 1940 outlined in a 30-page Department of Justice verbatim account of Fraser ’ s interviews with a number of POW ’ s , hand dated at 23 February 1940 , ex-Archives NZ .
xiii ) Johnny Frisbie , “ The Frisbies of the South Seas ,” Robert Hale Ltd , London , 1959 , pp . 153-157 .
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Chapter 3 Margaretta Betham & Ernst Reye Sources of information for this chapter included :
i ) Extensive biographical information on Ernst Reye and Margaretta Betham supplied by Reye descendant , Mrs Joy Hughes , of Australia , in 2012 & 2013 . This includes Mr Reye ’ s love letter to Margaretta and Reye ’ s receipt to the New Zealanders in 1914 for the German Administration cash . ii )
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Biographical information on Reye from “ Cyclopedia of Samoa ,” McCarron , Stewart & Co , Sydney , 1907 p . 91 , and Reye obituary in “ Pacific Islands Monthly ,” 20 Sept . 20 , 1933 , p . 33 .
German Administration movements of cash after the outbreak of war and retaliatory actions by NZ Administrator Logan covered in James N . Bade ( ed .), “ Karl Hanssen ’ s War
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