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- 1 2 Chief Molio'o Pouli Setu Pacific Islands Monthly, October 1959, p152
- ↑ Lauofo Meti (2002) Samoa: The Making of the Constitution, National University of Samoa, p28
- ↑ Meti, p29
- ↑ Frederic Koehler Sutter (1989) The Samoans: A Global Family University of Hawaii Press, p159