State Funeral
The coffin of the Samoan Head of State, Malietoa Tanumafili II, sits on dias outside Samoa's Parliament attended by members of the Pacific nation's police. The Governor-General, Hon Anand Satyanand, and Mrs Susan Satyanand, led the 60-strong delegation of official mourners from New Zealand at the funeral of Malietoa Tanumafili II in May 2007. Dignitaries from about 20 countries were at the State Funeral, an interdominational service. They included the Maori King, Tuheitia, King Siaosi Tupou V of Tonga and officials from Australia, Fiji, Tuvalu, American Samoa, Niue, Japan, China and French Polynesia. The Governor-General and Mrs Satyanand and Prime Minister the Rt Hon Helen Clark and her husband, Professor Peter Davis laid a wreath before the funeral.