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- Compiled before 1907 (Creation)
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1 reel; 35mm microfilm
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F.E. Lawes was a brother of the Rev. William George Lawes, the pioneer LMS missionary on Niue. The former was stationed on Niue from 1868 to 1910.
A notebook of 124 pp. giving the Niue equivalents of English words from 'a' to 'mistrust'. A second notebook containing the words for the rest of the alphabet appears to have been lost. The complete vocabulary was the basis for the publication, <I>A Vocabulary and Grammar of the Niue Dialect of the Polynesian Language</I> by Edward Tregear and S. Percy Smith (Wellington, 1907). Smith was the first Government Resident on the island after it was annexed to New Zealand in 1900
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(1974) Mr Tahaafa Talagi, Niue (custodian)
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ms708