Rabaul Native Sports
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Rabaul, Jan. 10.
NATIVE indentured labourers in Rabaul and surrounding districts evince considerable in terest when native sports are staged by the Administration. On December 29 ; the baseball oval was converted into a sports ground and during the afternoon some most strenuous tugs-of-war were pulled off, while other natives employed them selves in attempting the greasy pole, and pillow fighting.
Some of the flat-races were interesting and good times were recorded. Especially successful were the students of the Government technical school at Malaguna, for they are a very fine crowd of natives, well-developed and well-cared for.
The tug-of-war was won by the team of the Rabaul Carrying Co. The Bay Loo team were the runners-up.
The organisation and the carrying out of the programme were in the hands of a very efficient committee, under the chairmanship of the local A.D.O., Mr. H. A. Gregory.