Samoan election
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Upsets in Western Samoan election
Prime Minister Mataafa and all his Cabinet except the Minis ter of Education, Papalii Poumau, retained their seats in Western Samoa’s general election on February 25.
With 539 votes, the Minister of Finance, Mr. G. F. D. Betham, retained one of the two indivi dual voters’ seats. Mr. Peter Paul (587 votes) won the seat of the late Mr. F. C. F. Nelson.
Upsets included the defeat of the chairman of the Public Ac counts Committee, Afoafouvale Misimoa, and Tufuga Efi, son of the late Head of State, Tupua Tamasese.
Parliament will meet soon to elect a Prime Minister—almost certainly Mataafa —for the next three years. The new PM will select eight Cabinet Ministers. • See also ‘Matai by the truck load,” p. 20.