Saloa Tauia

Saloa Tauia
MP
Speaker of the Parliament of Tuvalu
In office
August 2002 – February 2003
Prime MinisterSaufatu Sopoanga
Preceded byTomu Sione
Member of the Tuvaluan Parliament
for Niutao
In office
25 July 2002 – February 2003
Personal details
DiedFebruary 2003
Political partyIndependent

Saloa Tauia (? - February 2003) was a Tuvaluan politician who served as Speaker of Parliament from August 2002 until his death in February 2003.[1]

Saloa Tauia had earlier served as the Chief of Police & Chief Immigration Officer.[2] 1990 marked Tauia’s 33 year as a police officer.[3] Tauia was appointed as an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1990 for public service.[4] He also serviced as Crown Counsel and as a Magistrate.[5]

He was elected to Parliament in the July 2002 general election to represent Niutao.[1] He was appointed as the speaker. He died in February 2003.[1][6]

References

  1. ^ a b c Paulson Panapa & Jon Fraenkel (2008). "The Loneliness of the Pro-Government Backbencher and the Precariousness of Simple Majority Rule in Tuvalu" (PDF). Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  2. ^ Munro, D. (1996). "Samoan Pastors in Tuvalu, 1865–1899". In D. Munro & A. Thornley (ed.). The Covenant Makers: Islander Missionaries in the Pacific. Suva, Fiji, Pacific Theological College and the University of the South Pacific. p. 245. ISBN 9820201268.
  3. ^ "South Pacific islanders wonder about the future". AP. 6 September 1990. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  4. ^ "Supplement to the London Gazette" (PDF). UK Government. 15 June 1990. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  5. ^ "Tuvalu Island Courts Bench Book" (PDF). e Pacific Judicial Education Programme, in collaboration with the Tuvalu National Judicial Education Committee. June 2004. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  6. ^ Turner, B, ed. (2004). The Statesman's Yearbook 2004: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World. Palgrave Macmillan.