Fijian Athlete Sets
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Another Record
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA. June 22.
A NOTHER brilliant putting-the-shot rl performance by Mataika Tuicakau (see May “PIM”) has inspired Fiji’s Education Department to suggest that the Fiji Amateur Sports Association might be able to send the young Fijian athlete to represent Fiji at British Empire Games to be held at Auckland, in February, 1950.
This time, at a trial held under correct competition conditions at the Teachers’
Training College, Nasinu, Mataika put a 16 lb. shot 48 ft. 9f in. (His April effort was 45 ft. 31 in.) Matalka’s latest performance beats both the Empire Games record of 48 ft. 0$ in. and the best British figure at last year’s Olympiad (48 ft. 6£ in.) with which Giles (Great Britain) established a new home record for England.