Fiji’s goal with Golden Oldies

FIJI is to host the Golden Oldies World Rugby Festival in September.

The Republic won the bid to host the festival over New Zealand and Austra lia.

Among the more than 1000 players, including former internationals, will be Australia’s Ella brothers and All Blacks Colin Meads and Andy Dalton. The festival will last five days, and is expected to bring at least SUS 3 million for Fiji.

Netballers netted

FIJI is to host the 1992 World Netball Youth Cup next June. Fiji’s netball president Nasiki Waqanaceva said the International Federation of Netball As sociations, the world governing body, have given Fiji the go-ahead to organise the international netball compeition.

Waqanaceva said the event would be the biggest netball tournament to be organ ised by the local association.

Under 21 teams from around the world will contest for the top honours in

the June 1992 tournament.

Tennis time for Tonga

TENNIS teams from Australia, New 1 Zealand, Tahiti, Fiji, Samoa and Tongaj are expected to compete in a tournament] organised by the Tonga Lawn Tennis; Association from April 17 to 25.

Association president Talanoafukaj Kitekei’aho said the event was one of the; first regional tennis tournaments, andl could become a tourism drawcard. Asked J if he thought the event could make; Tonga the tennis capital of the region, he* laughed but said it was a nice I bought..

The association held the event last] year but the number of competing teams? has expanded considerably. This year aj team from Tahiti, which won the gold I medal in the South Pacific Games, is? expected to attend.

Kitekei’aho said the tournament] would be played on the six three-year old, hard courts built for the South i

Pacific Minigames.