BOXING
LAVE SEEKS EMPIRE | TITLE (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June o Kitione Lave, of Tonga, came to LmC don today from Britain’s Pacific Islands looking for Don Cockell’s British Snwire heavy-weight title. Lave, aged 21, the powerfully-muscled winner of 35 out of 37 fights in Australia and New Zealand, is particularly keen to take the title back to Tonga to please Queen Salote. ••The Queen takes a keen interest in his career." said his manager, Bruct Woodcock, the former British title-holder “Lave writes to the Queen and she has said that she relies on him to win. We have written to the Queen promising her that we will look after him and do our best, to send him home the Empire champion."
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27682, 11 June 1955, Page 2
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