[5] Leiataualesa initially ran a banana plantation, but when Samoa gained independence in 1962 he became the country's first Public Service Commissioner.
[6] In February 1964 he suspended the Government Printer, Frank Sprague, for regularly being found in the Apia Club during work hours.
[7] Leiataualesa initially ignored the court ruling,[7] but paid Sprague up until the end of his contract after Cabinet instructed him to obey it.
[8] Later in 1964 he was instructed by Cabinet to implement a new policy to dismiss any public servant who had deliberately deceived a government department.
[1] Following his retirement from politics Leiataualesa worked as a research fellow at the National University of Samoa in the Samoan Studies program.