Tupuola Efi upset about rugby tour
PA Wellington The Western Samoa Deputy Prime Minister and rugby union president, Tupuola Efi, says his union executive went behind his back in accepting an invitation to tour South Africa this year. Tupuola Efi was at a Cabinet meeting when the union executive met last week to accept the South African invitation, with its $250,000 cash incentive, for the April-May tour. “I knew the invitation was coming up at the meeting, but I expected it would be rejected as it has been every year in the past when I have been chairing the meetings,” he said last evening from Apia. “I’m very concerned about what has happened. “I’ve had calls from
everywhere, since the decision was made in my absence, from people angry at what has happened and I’m trying to sort it out.” Tupuola Efi said a planned meeting between himself and the Western Samoa Prime Minister, Vaai Kolone, over the week-end on the tour decision had had to be postponed until today because the Prime Minister had become ill. Tupuola Efi said that while Western Samoans were angry at being left out of the World Cup rugby programme, there was considerable opposition to the tour. “I’ve got 50 people meeting at my house now, and they are not tour supporters,” he said.
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Press, 3 February 1986, Page 4
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