Sources: Radio Australia Sport and Samoa public holidays. The Samoan Cabinet has approved the allocation of the afternoon of Thursday April 12 (commencing at 12 noon), and the entire day of Friday April 13, 2007 as a public holiday, to celebrate the Manu Samoa Sevens Team’s victory at the 2007 Hong Kong Sevens.Analysis: Countries in the Pacific seem to take rugby very seriously indeed. One will recall that in June 2006, it was the Fiji 7s rugby team which came back from the Sevens Tournament (held in London, that year), leading to cabinet approving the payment of a sizable bonus to the 7s team "for winning the IRB series and promoting the country internationally", as well as a sizable budget, by local standards, "to be spent on rugby victory celebrations". The only thing that prevented the declaration of a public holiday in 2006 was that one was coming up (the Queen's Birthday) within a few days. But, the previous year, in 2005, a public holiday was declared for the then again victorious 7s Fiji team.
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