Champion Fiji Boxer
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RATH MARIKA LATIANAVA, who holds the heavyweight boxing championship of Fiji, hav ing defeated Semi Nate, former champion of Fiji, Tonga and Samoa. Now 27, he weighs 13 stone and is 5 ft. 11ΒΌ in. in height. At 21 he held the Fiji middleweight title, retiring undefeated; and at 23 he was light-heavyweight champion, also undefeated. His manager is Mr. A. B. Edwards, of the Colonial Sugar Refin ing Co., Rarawai, who himself is a noted boxer.
In the photograph, Ratu Marika is wearing his heavyweight and light-heavyweight title belts.