Olaf Frederick Nelson

Nelson grew up in the family's home village of Faleolo until the age of eight, when he was sent to the Marist Brothers School in Apia.

[5] He expanded his father's copra trading business throughout the islands, and by the time he was thirty-five, Nelson was one of the wealthiest members of the Apia community.

[6] The colonial administration's desperation to silence Nelson led them to exile him in January 1928, along with two other part-European members of the Mau.

[9] General Hart, the New Zealand administrator, demanded that Nelson be excluded from any meeting (fono) swith the leadership of the Mau.

General Hart ordered police raids on the Mau’s headquarters at Vaimoso and Nelson’s residence at Tuaefu, which occurred on 15 November 1933.

Viopapa Lucy, Irene Gustave Noue, Olive Nelson (Malienafau), Joyce Rosabel Piliopo, Sina Hope and Calmar Josephine Taufau,[22] and one son, Ta'isi who died as a result of the influenza epidemic in 1919 aged 4.

[24] Ta'isi's daughter Noue went on to marry Tupua Tamasese Mea'ole, who became Joint Head of State when Samoa attained Independence in 1962.

[23] In 1964, she was the first Samoan woman to graduate in medicine from the University of Otago and has committed her career to improving the health and welfare of women and children in the Pacific Islands.