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- ↑ Kilifoti Sisilia Eteuati (1982) Evaevaga a Samoa: Assertion of Samoan autonomy 1920–1936
- ↑ Asofou So'o (2008) Democracy and Custom in Sāmoa: An Uneasy Alliance , p53
- ↑ James Wightman Davidson (1967) Samoa Mo Samoa: The Emergence of the Independent State of Western Samoa, p394
- ↑ Malama Meleisea & Penelope Schoeffel Meleisea (1987) Lagaga: A Short History of Western Samoa, p159
- ↑ Samoan election results by constituency 1964–2016 Samoa Election Results Database
- ↑ So'o, p87
- 1 2 Tuluono Lama Pacific Islands Monthly, April 1982, p65