This index has only partially survived. Entries from A-O are missing. The index relates to the ordinances found in BMO 2/22,23 and also those ordinances published in the Government Gazette (series 6054). In 1955 the German Consuls archives were discovered in Apia with the records of the German Colonial Administration. These were removed and transferred to National Archives of New Zealand for extensive conservation work and microfilming. The decision was made to document the German-Samoan agencies and series as if they had transferred the records in 1914 -which is why the Executive Council of Western Samoa although the true transferring agency, is not fully documented.