Falila | Māngere

“Good morning to you, too. Early in the morning, I catch a bus to Roberston Road, come shopping Centre Māngere. My name is Falila. I come from Niue. My village from Liku, Mutalau, Alofi. I thank you very much.

I come over here to New Zealand in 1972. Must be forty, 49 years I stay in New Zealand. I have seven children for me, and I have 27 grandchildren, 36 mokopuna. I stay in Māngere. My family from Sydney.

Thank You very much – I am Niue person.  Greetings to you both.

Thank You to you both, for this opportunity that I am able to speak to you.

Thank You so much for this day and for the morning, at this time which is about 9am.  My age is 85 now and will be 86 in September coming.

Thank You very much. Thank You so much to you both.

My husband die in Niue in 1966, already seven children for me. Two girls, five boys. 

I like my church and my group, and my family. I pay my fare to go to Australia, and pay my fare to go to Niue, and come back. I go back in the last week from Brisbane, and a wedding in Brisbane, and stay there and come back. 

On Monday I see for the king and the queen, where we meet them in Mt Albert . 

I like my family, my kids, and like my grandchildren and my family, and my Group from New Zealand in Ōtara. I like before, I like now, here. I stay in Auckland and I to go back to Niue every year, go back to Niue, and then come back. I’m lucky in New Zealand, and I’m lucky in Niue, and everybody go to Australia, my kids, and I come back to Auckland, I remember I must stay in New Zealand. I like in Niue. My house to stay to Niue. I want my house to stay to Niue. She come back from New Zealand. My family. I love my grandfather, three wife, one of the wife, already six children, that is one, another two. Nothing, for two wife. I thank you very much for my family. I like my family, and the first one is my son, Savalio Papua, Merenesi Papua, Ne Papua, Tagavai Papua, Bill Papua, Vailima Papua, Anne Papua, Teleni Papua, Puleana Papua, Ketiana Papua, Nes Papua, Tuki Papua, Clinton Papua, Avi Papua, Nathan Papua. I remember together now. I thank you. I thank you for my brother, Malaga Samoa from Ōtara and Vanessa Nemona, Sifaogo, Nofoua, and Minister Uea and the wife from Ōtara, and my brother Sione Mologa Tagavaitau and Sifa Ata. I pray to Jesus, thank you for life for me. Any year 20, it must be 48 years, 49 years old, I stay in New Zealand. The last one and my baby Vailima, and I thank for stay to welcome come December now 50 years old from Niue, December coming. 

I hope, I like my family talk to me. I like to stay in New Zealand, and I go back to Sydney and then come back, and I go to Niue, and I come back to New Zealand, and I pay for my kids, not they pay for me. I thank you very much for my kids for me.

Thank You very much to all my kids and the people of Niue since I have been in this country.  It is God’s will that he has given me health/strength – Jesus Christ a long time to stay in New Zealand. Fakaue Lahi.”