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Archives New Zealand , Wellington , personal file of F . Stünzner from First World War and inter-war period , Department of External Affairs .
Sources for some of the information on the Casino Hotel per papers of P . W . H . Kelly , Alexander Turnbull Library , including construction contract and opening speech ; also “ Illustrated Catalogue of Properties offered for Lease ,” Govt Printer , Wellington , 1924 . The latter was also useful for background information on the Tuvao plantation started by Erich Langen and later leased by the Stünzners .
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Captain Hufnagel ’ s Card
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Translation of the Hufnagel card inscription is by his great granddaughter Kathleen Edmonds , of Auckland .
Text of Karl Hanssen ’ s 1906 speech on behalf of Captain Hufnagel is held by Touzelle Edmonds , of Auckland , the captain ’ s granddaughter . It has been translated by Kathleen Edmonds .
Much biographical information on Captain Hufnagel has been provided by Touzelle Edmonds in interviews in October & November 2013 , July 2014 and March 2015 . Highly informative historical summaries on Captain Hufnagel and his family members
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have also been very useful . These were researched and written by his great granddaughter , Christine Hood , of Auckland . Additional information on Hufnagel ’ s seafaring days has been obtained from a charming ( and apparently unfinished ) reminiscence he wrote for his children some years before he died . This is titled “ My Dear Children .” The original is held by his grandson Mr Franz Pfeil Jr , of Quedlinburg , Germany . Mrs Marlies Pfeil transcribed it on 11 Oct . 1995 , and it was translated by F . Prolingheuer on 5 May 2014 .
Material on Captain Hufnagel ’ s agricultural endeavours at Vailele has been derived from a number of sources , including op . cit . “ Cyclopedia of Samoa ”, pp . 82-83 ; J . W . Fox & K . B . Cumberland ( ed .), “ Western Samoa : Land , Life and Agriculture in Tropical Polynesia ,” pub . Whitcombe & Tombs , Christchurch , 1962 ; and Franz Reinecke , “ A Silesian Colonial Pioneer ,” an obituary / eulogy on Hufnagel apparently published in the Berlin-based newspaper for which Reinecke worked in 1912 . Reinecke , a botanist , was apparently based in Breslau . He appears to have spent much time with Hufnagel in his three-year visit to Samoa ( 1893-95 ) on anthropological and botanical research . A copy of this eulogy has been translated by Kathleen Edmonds .
German plantation layout information obtained from Oskar & Klaus Stünzner per Albrecht Stünzner and Tertia Stünzner Ryan , 2013 . Advice on plantation ledger book recording of coconut tree yields provided by Ulli Weissbach , of Auckland .
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Paula David comment on the Vailele plantation per , “ Zehn Jahre auf den Inseln der Südsee 1887-1897 ,” ed . Schlossmuseum Sonderhausen sowie & James Bade , assisted by James Braund , Univ . of Auckland , pub . Sandstein Verlag , Dresden , 2011 , p . 35 .
Information on the long walk back from Suga to the workers ’ quarters at Vailele at the end of a work day was passed on from a descendant of one of the workers , Tracey Paki , in December 2014 .
viii ) Information on the Godeffroys / DH & PG company and the early copra trade was obtained from a number of sources including Sylvia Masterman , “ The Origins of International Rivalry in Samoa , 1845-1884 ,” pub . George Allen & Unwin , London , 1934 ; O . Riedel , “ Der Kampf um Deutsch-Samoa . Erinnerungen eines Hamburger Kaufmanns ,” pub . Berlin Deutscher Verlag , ( 1938 ); “ Einhundert Jahre Australienfahrt 1886- 1986 ,” Otto J . Seiler , Hapag-Lloyd , 1986 ; Birgit Scheps , “ Das verkaufte Museum : Die Südsee-Unternehmungen des Handelshauses Joh . Ces . Godeffroy & Sohn , Hamburg , und die Sammlungen ‘ Museum Godeffroy ,’”, pub . Goecke & Evers , Hamburg , 2005 .
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Dr Birgit Scheps-Bretschneider , of the Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde , Leipzig , kindly provided information on the family background of August and Dorothea Unshelm . She has a family connection with Unshelm descendants . Birgit , Dr Hilke Thode -Arora and Dr Reinhard Wendt also furnished many details about the family background of Theodor Weber and his daughters . Very
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