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- ↑ "Former Flying Fijian joins NFP wagon". The Fiji Times . 17 August 2014.
- ↑ "Leawere returns for Nadroga". Fiji Village . 26 March 2011.
- ↑ "Neivua, Leawere in". The Fiji Times. 25 June 2014.