Story: TuiSamoa, Agnes Rosa

Agnes TuiSamoa on giving

This clip from Albert Wendt’s documentary New streets – Auckland Fa’a-Samoa (1982) highlight’s Agnes TuiSamoa’s criticisms of the expectation on Pacific Island people that they give more than they could afford to their extended family and community.

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Reference: TZP7501 – LOOKOUT – NEW STREETS (1982). Courtesy of Television New Zealand.

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Elizabeth Cox. 'TuiSamoa, Agnes Rosa', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2018. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6t7/tuisamoa-agnes-rosa (accessed 19 April 2024)