Bunge Family Collection
Copyright : Museum für Völkerkunde , Hamburg ( Adolf Ohle Album )
Governor Schultz and Fatu would live for about four years in this house from 1915 to 1918 .
The Motuihe Camp was closed down at the end of 1918 after the war ended . Internees were transferred to the Narrowneck Camp , at Devonport on Auckland ’ s North Shore , where most foreigners were kept a further 6-12 months , being shipped out progressively between May 1919 and early 1920 . Fatu appears to have accompanied Dr Schultz back to Germany on the steamship Willochra in May 1919 .
“ Gambling room , Governor ’ s house where I went twice a week .” So wrote Motuihe internee Adolf Ohle in a caption to this photo in his album which is held by the Museum für Völkerkunde , Hamburg . It is known that Erich Schultz spent much time in internment penning letters of complaint to the NZ authorities . Ohle ’ s statement suggests that card games also helped relieve the boredom of captivity . A gramophone on the table is doubtless the one that Schultz had had specially retrieved from his quarters at Vailima two months after internment began and shipped from Apia to Motuihe .
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