Title: “A cruise on the Maui Pomare”. Scene of the ocean taken from on board a ship. Man standing on deck. Ship alongside wharf. “Maui Pomare” casting off, reversing from her berth, and steaming out into Wellington Harbour. The ship at sea. Views activity in Samoan village, men husking coconuts. Cultural display for visitors. Man scaling coconut palm. Men and women dancing in traditional costume. Views of islands taken from on board ship. People standing on deck. Ship’s officer [probably captain] with passengers standing in the background. Two men taking on deck. View approaching coastal settlement. Launch [Apia] leaving ship. Men in multiple canoes taken from ship. Man in uniform standing on deck [possibly customs officer or pilot]. Man and woman wearing bathing costumes looking over ship’s railing. Man and woman admiring garden. Two women talking in porch. Slightly elevated shot of a group of local children and visitors. European woman sitting on stool used for husking coconuts. Ship’s officers being brought to ship aboard dinghy. Two [local] men in uniform standing on ship’s deck. Shots of ocean. Woman skipping rope on deck.
Street scenes in large town [possibly Apia in Samoa]. Sign on building: ‘General Merchants and Traders, 1932”. Three women walking though garden. Two women with a native flower. Flowers in bloom. View over island from hill top home.
Local women selling baskets at the side of a road. Views of local people in a large open sided [trading building]. Traditional buildings. Visiting with local children carrying water. Men on motorised boat beside ship. Local men paddling canoes to ship. [Ship’s captain] sitting on a deck chair interrupted from reading a newspaper. Shot of the horizon. Man walking along the deck towards the camera. Helmsman at the bridge. Ship’s officer [Captain] standing outside addressing camera, Man and woman standing on deck. People standing at landing [wharf]. Ship’s officer holding a bunch of bananas; a woman is standing behind him. Ship’s officer and woman playing game. Some members of the ship’s company looking down to the camera from the bridge. Woman relaxing in deck chair. Local boys coming alongside in canoe. Two local men on deck. People standing in the mouth of a cave silhouetted against the sea. Locals gathered at shops at side of road. Coastal views. Ships off shore. Visiting woman walking with parasol. Men raking [cocoa nuts] left to dry in the sun. Formal picture of a group of local men. Interior shot of a man addressing a group of boy in an open side classroom. Large formal European style house. Man and woman standing on deck. [Samoan] man in military uniform standing on deck.