Post #632110 by Club Nouméa on Thu, Apr 12, 2012 1:46 AM

Wonderful thread with lots of amazing research. This section raised a smile:

Leilani Bargoyne in “Going ‘Troppo’ in the South Pacific: Dr. Bernhard Funk of Samoa 1844–1911” cited Otto Riedel, a German plantation owner, as recalling “that Funk was well-known in Apia for parties he hosted in his two Samoan huts (fale) at the back of his house.” In Sven Mönter’s PhD thesis, “Dr. Augustin Krämer: A German Ethnologist in the Pacific,” he states “Krämer, as his diaries illustrate, was also a guest on numerous parties and Bierabende (“Beer Nights”) organized by Dr. Bernhard Funk."

Several years ago I nearly bought a house off a Samoan family in Porirua, and they had built one of these evening drinking & entertaining fales out in the back yard!!! Unfortunately they hadn't got a building permit from the City Council, and also the house had dry rot, so I had to walk away :(