Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1900 - 1909 range held: 1899 - 1903 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This series was in use from 1900 with the establishment of the Colonial Administration until May 1909 when the new system was brought into use. A large proportion of files was carried directly to the new system and top numbered without any further papers being added. It would also appear that, when new file subjects were created, bindings of these old files were split and papers removed to form the basis for new files. This could explain why all the files remaining in this old system have split bindings and why there are so few of them. They may be what was left of files which were dismembered. Files listed in this series are those which physically remained as part of the series, of which portions were top numbered into the new system. File titles have been given in German and translated into English only when the item is actually held. A partial index to the file titles forms part of series 6068. In 1955 the German Consul's archives were discovered in Apia with the records of the German Colonial Administration. These were removed and transferred to the National Archives of New Zealand for extensive conservation work and microfilming. The decision was made to document the German-Samoan agencies and record series as if they had transferred the records in 1914 - which is why the Executive Council of Western Samoa, although the 'true' transferring agency, is not fully documented.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
All records recovered in 1955 have been preserved
Accruals
System of arrangement
Archives New Zealand >> Management of the Samoa Protectorate
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Papers have been sewn into signatures and into binders. All files in this series have broken bindings and loose papers, possibly due to splitting of files at introduction of new system (series 6051) in 1909. Most of the papers are in German or Samoan.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Archives New Zealand, Head Office, Wellington
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Original description: Archway (Archives New Zealand)
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- The National Archives (Subject)