Agnes TuiSamoa

Agnes Rosa TuiSamoa (née Sue; 7 December 1932 – 17 November 2004) was a Pacific community organizer and social worker in Auckland, New Zealand.

Biography TuiSamoa was born in Suva, Fiji, to a Samoan mother, Apaula Theresa Perera, and Chinese father, Harry Sue. Her parents separated when she was young and TuiSamoa was raised by her godmother and foster father until she was 10 years old, when she went to live with her mother. She was educated in Catholic schools and attended a business college. In 1951, she moved to Western Samoa, and in 1953 she moved to New Zealand.

Works In New Zealand, she settled in Auckland and began training to be a nurse at Catholic Mater Misericordiae Hospital. She encountered racism and resigned to work in the accounts department of Auckland Hospital's laundry unit instead. She retired from social work in the early 2000s.

Personal life TuiSamoa had her first child in 1954 in Auckland; she was unmarried and after six months her mother took the baby to Fiji. In 1955, TuiSamoa married Keresipi Tuisamoa and the couple had nine children together. Her eldest child returned to Auckland to live with the family when he was six years old.