20 January, 2021, 9:15 pm
Vanuabalavu captain Jimione Buwawa crashes into a tackler in the final of the island zone rugby at Buckhurst Park where his team won 15- 13. Picture: FILE
On September 5, 1977 The Fiji Times covered the island zone rugby match between Vanuabalavu and Ovalau.
Schoolteacher Jimione Buwawa chose to coach Vanuabalavu after captaining the side to win the 1974 island zone final.
The following year, Vanuabalavu lost the competition shield and their attempt to regain it in 1976 also failed.
But in 1977 Buwawa was determined to put Vanuabalavu back on the winners list.
The only way he believed he could do it was to actually take field again.
Anne De La Warr and Julia Cradwick
William Sackville, 11th Earl De La Warr, wants the designation ‘sausage-maker’ added to his entry in Debrett’s. It is perhaps a surprising ambition for an old Etonian nobleman whose family seat, Buckhurst Park in East Sussex, is one of the most historically significant in the country. ‘He’s obsessed with his sausage company,’ laughs his wife, Anne, Countess De La Warr. ‘His interests are flat racing, pedigree Sussex cattle, his sausage company and his pub, The Dorset Arms.’ And Anne’s interests? Gardens and Shetland ponies, both of which she nurtures beautifully.