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School in the 2017 FSSRU Competition. Lelean last held the Deans Trophy in 2014. Their previous victory in the Fiji secondary schools' competition was in 2010 after winning the Deans finals for the third consecutive year since 2008. Lelean also takes part in athletics, netball, soccer, hockey and cricket. The
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As a result, he and 50 volunteers from Toorak Boys School, met at the
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for the FSSRU Under-19 competition, 14 times and drawn five times since it entered the competition in the mid-1940s. It was the first school to have won all the Fiji
Secondary Schools' Rugby Union (FSSRU) Competition trophies on offer in 1952. That record has since been equalled by Ratu Kadavulevu
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Methodist missions in Fiji served as education centres where students were taught to read and write as well as a rudimentary knowledge of medicine. This laid the foundations of formal education in Fiji. Fijian Methodist Ministers and Catechists were not only instrumental in spreading the
321:. Research carried out in the 1960s by Leonard Lelean and Ronald Lelean Sharman however suggests that the name is much older than the time of the Huguenots, and may well derive from a Cornish place-name, Leighlean, meaning 'a flat, muddy place.
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European Union and opened in 2006. Directly across the river is the village of Nausori and the old sugar town of the same name. The school roll for 2023 is 1,400. Lelean Memorial School caters for students in the
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and died at the age of 72 on 14 September 1942. He had spent a considerable part of his life being a
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Korodredre,Davuilevu Sukulu, Lelean Knights, Blues,Home of the Brave
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193:. It was established in 1943 and is run by the
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620:- former High Commissioner to Great Britain
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309:. Rev Lelean served in Fiji for 36 years.
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544:- late former university administrator
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440:1971-73: T.G.M Spooner
431:1959-69: R.L Northcott
408:Lelean Memorial School
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313:History of the Leleans
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251:William Ewart Donnelly
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479:1993-96: A. D. Racule
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419:1943-45: W.E Donnelly
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