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  Lala Mara
Adi Lala's marriage, on 9 September 1950, to Ratu Mara, who was to become the Tui Lau and Tui Nayau (the traditional ruler of Nayau and the Lau Islands) was considered a dynastic marriage, as it united two powerful feudal families.
Their eldest son, Ratu Finau Mara, served as a member of the House of Representatives and of the Cabinet throughout the 1990s, and led the Fijian Association Party from 1996 to 1998.
Their second daughter, Adi Koila Mara Nailatikau, was elected to the House of Representatives in 1999 and was Minister of Tourism in 1999 and 2000.
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 Kamisese Mara -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mara's daughter, Adi Ateca Ganilau (wife of Ratu Epeli Ganilau) appeared support Bainimarama's claims in a statement on 10 January 2005, saying that her father had resigned and had refused to return because he was upset by the abrogation of the Constitution.
Mara's son, Ratu Finau Mara, who is widely expected to be named his successor as Tui Nayau, or Paramount Chief of the Lau Islands, was expected to participate in the vakataraisulu at the request of elders from Tubou and Levuka, but for undisclosed reasons, remained in Suva.
Mara's character was described as a combination of the forthright and the diplomatic, the inflexible and the dexterous, the imperious and the tolerant.
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 Kamisese Mara
Their eldest son, Ratu Finau Mara, was a Cabinet Minister and parliamentary leader of the Fijian Association Party from 1996 to 1998, when he resigned to take up a diplomatic posting.
Mara's character was described as a combination of the forthright and the diplomatic, the inflexible and the dexterous, the imperious and the tolerant [1].
Mara was survived by his wife, Adi Lala (who herself died on July 20 the same year), and by two sons and five daughters; one son predeceased him.
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 Finau Mara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He is best-known as the son of former Prime Minister and President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
Mara graduated from New Zealand's Otago University with an LLB (Law) degree in 1983.
In 1987, he was appointed Fiji's Chief Administrative Officer for Foreign Affairs, and in 1991 he became Charge d'Affaires at the Fijian Embassy in Washington, D.C. Upon returning to Fiji, Mara was elected to the House of Representatives in 1994 and served for a single term.
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 List of people by name: Mara-Marh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mara Nailatikau, Adi Koila, (born 1953), Fijian diplomat, politician.
Mara, Ratu Finau, Fijian soldier, diplomat, and politician.
Mara, Ratu Sir Kamisese, (1920-2004), Fijian founding father; Prime Minister 1967-1992; President 1993-2000.
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 Colour, Class and Custom: Section Five   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mara's duty as a parliamentarian and a national statesman—not merely a Fijian one—was to uphold the 1970 Constitution and the duly elected government.
Mara had begun building up "Fijian institutions, particularly the military", on the assumption they would be needed for a coup as far back as 1979 (1989:247).
Mara was, furthermore, the backbone of the Alliance, and in that role, his political future (as well as the party's) looked uncertain.
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 Pacific Islands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara's personality was one moulded by a strong Polynesian influenced culture, western education, colonialism, Roman Catholicism, golf, cricket, notions of chiefly behaviour, and towards the end, a desire to do well financially for himself as well as the Fijians, and particularly the Lauan people.
Ratu Mara was born at the island of Vanua Balavu, in northern Lau, in 1920.
Ratu Mara is survived by two brothers and a sister, his wife, Ro Adi Lady Lala Mara, two sons Ratu Finau Mara and Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba, and his daughters Adi Ateca, Adi Koila Nailatikau, Adi Kakua, Adi Litia and Adi Elenoa.
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 Lala Mara - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Lala Mara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ro Lady Lala Mara, maiden name Lalabalavu Litia Katoafutoga Tuisawau (January 4 1931 – July 20 2004) was a Fijian chief, who was better known as the widow of the late Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, modern Fiji's founding father who served for many years as Prime Minister and President of his country.
Adi Lala's marriage, on 9 September 1950, to Ratu Mara, who was to become the Tui Lau and Tui Nayau (the traditional ruler of the Lau Islands) was considered a dynastic marriage, as it united two powerful feudal families.
Adi Lala's death, only three months after that of her husband, was announced in Suva on July 20, 2004.
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Targets, goals and education plans are important but, as argued by Mara (2000b), numbers and statistics are not enough to indicate the levels of quality of provision, quality of training and qualifications, quality of cultural values and knowledge, and linguistic skills’ transmission.
Mara (1998), surveyed the progress of Pacific language groups during the 1980s and 1990s as they worked to achieve licensed and chartered status.
Finau, C., (2000), The Teaching of Tongan Knowledge and Culture in a Tongan Early Childhood Centre: A Case Study of Akoteu ‘o Tuingapapai-‘O-Uesile, Unpublished MA Dissertation, University of Auckland.
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 Obituary - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As Prime Minister Ratu Mara set a fine example of how a multiracial nation must be governed - with due regard to the cultural sensitivities of all the communities that make Fiji.
Ratu Mara was a man of great vision, commitment and dignity who towered above his contemporaries both here and abroad.
Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara was a rare combination of traditional Fijian aristocracy and the finest values of the Western tradition.
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 Wansolwara Online: News (USP)
Ratu Mara, who died at age 83 on April 18, led Fiji to independence from Britain in 1970, serving as prime minister for a total of 22 years and later as president.
Students of Ratu Mara Vocational College and Ratu Finau Secondary School formed the guard of honour along the main road at Tubou, as the cortege proceeded to Vatuwaqalevu.
Ratu Mara’s youngest son, Major Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba, was part of the military team.
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 Untitled Document
Finau Mara ia a basket weaver from the island of Kabara, in Lau, a chain of islands off of Viti levu.
Finau is a basket weaver who has been weaving for more than 15 years.
Finau has followed Fijian tradition and has passed these skills to her children.
www.fiji.gov.fj /AICHI/feature02.html   (264 words)

  
 Gallery :: Final journey of the late Ro Adi Lady Lala Mara to Lomanikoro, Rewa.
Ratu Finau Mara with members of their close relatives on the special platform built for the late Ro Adi Lady Lala Mara.
Ratu Finau Mara and Princess Pilolevu of Tonga.
Ratu Finau Mara meeting the Vunivalu, Ratu Mataitini.
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Kalisi Finau, a Tongan native, was arrested March 17, 2002, after a police officer thought he was driving erratically.
Finau admitted drinking about 10 cups of kava at his church earlier that night, according to his attorney, Mara Feiger.
On Wednesday, the San Mateo County district attorney's office dismissed the charge rather than pursue a new trial.
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Ratu Finau Mara, was a Cabinet Minister and parliamentary leader of the Fijian Association Party from Japanese shaved pussy Gay sex fuck 1996 to 1998, when he resigned to take up a diplomatic posting.
The making of a statesman: 1950-1970 After serving (from 1950) as an Administrative Officer in the Colonial Services, Mara was elected to one of four seats on the Legislative Council reserved for ethnic Fijians in 1953.
One problem that threatened to delay independence was Poppin pussy video Dick guy hot the failure of ethnic Fijians and Indo-Fijians to agree on a showing, was guilty while abroad, at least of a little duplicity.
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 Cook Islands Government Online
Fiji’s Roving High Commissioner to the Pacific Islands, Ratu Finau Alifereti Mara made a courtesy visit to Prime Minister Dr Robert Woonton on Wednesday.
Ratu Mara was visiting Rarotonga to present his credentials to the Queen’s Representative, Frederick Goodwin.
He was appointed the country’s first Roving High Commissioner in 2001 and is based in Fiji.
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 Lala Mara -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lala Mara -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Their second daughter, (Click link for more info and facts about Adi Koila Mara Nailatikau) Adi Koila Mara Nailatikau, was elected to the House of Representatives in 1999 and was Minister of Tourism in 1999 and 2000.
She has been a (A member of a senate) Senator since 2001.
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 TUI NAYAU
Ratu Sir Kamisese Kapaiwai Tuimacilai Mara, Tui Nayau, Tui Lau, Tevita Uluilakeba 1966/2004, born 13th May 1920, educated in Fiji 1926/1940 and Sacred Heart College, NZ 1940/41, Otago University, NZ 1942/45, Wadham College, Oxford 1946/49 (MA), Honorary Fellow 1971, London School of Economics 1961/62 (Dip.
Ratu Alifereti Finau Mara, has issue by his partner, Vitinia Buadromo.
Adi Litia Cakobau Mara, married Harry Dugdale of Shropshire, England, and has issue, 1 son and 1 daughter.
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 Gallery :: Final journey of the late Ro Adi Lady Lala Mara to Lomanikoro, Rewa.
Gallery :: Final journey of the late Ro Adi Lady Lala Mara to Lomanikoro, Rewa.
Final journey of the late Ro Adi Lady Lala Mara to Lomanikoro, Rewa.
The casket of the late Ro Adi Lady Lala Mara on the special platform from Nasali landing to her chiefly village of Lomanikoro.
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It is with a deep sense of sorrow and personal loss that I received news of Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara's death.His passing away, at the age of 84, signifies the end of an era for our nation.
Ratu Mara had dominated Fiji's political life for over five decades, steering Fiji through independence.He is rightly regarded as the architect of the nation, the man who created its multiracial fabric.
Preparations have started as the news was relayed to the households of the Burebasaga confederacy earlier today.Popularly known as Lady Lala, Litia Cakobau Lalabalavu Katoafutoga Mara has genes that unite the bloodlines of several distinguished noble households of Fiji.
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 Ratu Finau likely to become Tui Nayau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The late Tui Nayau Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara's eldest son Ratu Finau Mara is likely to be nominated by the Vuanirewa clan to take up the Tui Nayau title.
Our reporter Sekove Toduadua has confirmed that Ratu Finau will be the first to carry a weaved magimagi to the venue where the chiefs will be seated.
He will be followed by Princess Pilolevu from Tonga and escorted by Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara's son, Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba.
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 Café Pacific: Asia-Pacific Network: Rabuka
Apart from him, Ratu Finau Mara, Filipe Bole, Qoroniasi Bale, Ratu George Kadavulevu, Apisai Tora and Taniela Veitata (9) were all part of a conspiracy to undermine an elected government.
However, revelations that Ratu Mara gave his blessings to a military takeover are both startling and unnerving, since he has always maintained "no knowledge of the coup whatsoever." Not only that but this disclosure cast a serious doubt on the involvement of then Governor-General, Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau.
However, by then, Mara was endorsing Kamikamica as a possible Prime Minister.
www.asiapac.org.fj /cafepacific/resources/aspac/rabuka2.html   (2800 words)

  
 Fiji Museum - Weaving Virtual Exhibition
This exhibition focused on the traditional, ritual, as well as utilitarian uses for mats by the community, the different types of mats, the modern commercial markets for weaving, and the art of weaving.
Pieces shown here are intricately woven samplers created by prominent Fiji weaver, Finau Mara.
Above: Finau Mara demonstrates her weaving techniques during a workshop in 1999.
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 Fiji Government 1991 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
Sitiveni RABUKA on 25 September 1987, Ratu Sir Kamisese MARA was reappointed as prime minister
Diplomatic representation: Charge d'Affaires Ratu Finau MARA; Chancery at Suite 240, 2233 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20007; telephone (202) 337-8320; there is a Fijian Consulate in New York; US--Ambassador Evelyn I. TEEGEN; Embassy at 31 Loftus Street, Suva (mailing address is P. Box 218, Suva); telephone [679] 314-466 or 314-069
Flag: light blue with the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant and the Fijian shield centered on the outer half of the flag; the shield depicts a yellow lion above a white field quartered by the cross of Saint George featuring stalks of sugarcane, a palm tree, bananas, and a white dove
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 Radio Australia - News - Ratu Mara Fiji's possible candidate for ambassador to Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In Fiji, the government has indicated that Ratu Finau Mara is a possible candidate for the top job of Fiji's ambassador to Japan.
And the minister says Ratu Finau is more than capable of leading Fiji's diplomatic post in an important country like Japan.
He says Ratu Finau has sound working knowledge of Fiji's foreign policy.
www.radioaustralia.net.au /news/stories/s1437338.htm   (231 words)

  
 VUNIVALU of BAU
Adi Florie, married 1898, Ratu Joni Mataitini, born 1867.
Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, born 5th July 1941 in Levuka, Deputy Prime Minister, married Adi Koila Mara, born 1953, daughter of Sir Kamisese Mara, and has issue.
Adi Ateca Moceiwaqa, married Ratu Alifereti Finau, Tui Nayau, died April 1934, and had issue.
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