Promising Tongan Boxer
p. 163 · Read in the full issue
in Suva
BY knocking out Atun a i s a Camaibau in the fifth round of a heavyweight championship bout recently fought in Suva, Tom Hini, the powerful-hitting Tongan boxer, must attract the attention of overseas boxing associations.
Particularly so as Atunaisa, who fought in Australia and New Zealand as Henry Bray, had very good wins against such well-known fighters as Ritchie Sands and Len Harvey of Australia, and the heavy weight champion of Tahiti.
Mr. Ned Henneberry of the well-known Australian boxing family, trained Hini for the fight
and proposes later in the year to take him* to New Zealand.
While Hini is inclined to leave himself open he is a hard-slogging fighter with a very heavy punch and has the capacity for taking punishment and in good hands may easily do very well overseas. !f Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, who is studying parliamentary procedure in the UK will return to Fiji in August. He is to be the first Speaker of the Fiji Legislative Council. ■ The Colonial Sugar Refining Company’s senior bachelor quarters at Lautoka, Fiji, were destroyed by fire on April 30. The quarters had only recently been completed.