Cricket Banned
Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright! APIA (Western Samoa), February 6. The happy-go-lucky-people of Western Samoa have been ordered to stop playing so much cricket
played cricket every day: “No games except on Saturday and Wednesday.” The move was intended to shock the islanders, many of whom were ap-
(kilikiliki) and start rebuilding their villages and plantations devasted by a hurricane last week. The. Prime Minister (the Hon. Fiame Mata’afa) has told the villagers, many of whom have
parently unmoved by the 100-mile-an-hour gales. “The people just don’t realise the seriousness of the situation,” the Prime Minister said. “They have never been hungry in their lives.”
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30979, 8 February 1966, Page 1
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104Cricket Banned Press, Volume CV, Issue 30979, 8 February 1966, Page 1
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