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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1961Vol. XXXI, No. 11

Touring Fijians Make

p. 25 · Read in the full issue

Themselves At Home

Members of a Fijian Rugby team who were making an Australian tour in May-June captured the limelight, as usual, for their complete unorthodoxy. The sports writers kept complaining that it made a set pattern of defence against them quite useless.

Their bursts of speed, like the barefoot one displayed in the centre picture by exuberant winger Josefa Levula during Sydney practice, guaranteed them plenty of barrackers on the field, but even off it they were hardly ever out of the lime light. Epeli Rayawa certainly got himself well and truly in it when he called back stage at Sydney's Her Majesty's Theatre and let "My Fair Lady" star Bunty Turner give him a once over lightly with a powder puff. In more serious mood, Nete Logavatu and Captain Orisi Dawai were photographed talking to the Rev. T. D.

Noffs, at the Methodist Wesley Chapel, Sydney, after the team had attended morning service. Logavatu read the lesson.