Wau Sportsmen at Pt. Moresby
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From Our Own Correspondent
Pt. Moresby, Dec. 26.
THE first batch of sportsmen from Wau, New Guinea, arrived at Port Moresby by ’plane on Christmas morning, and a further party reached here to-day.
Great preparations have been made, and four busy days are ahead of them. Port Moresby resi dents hope to give the visitors a fitting return for the hearty welcome and hospitality extended at Wau to Papua’s cricketers last year.
The main arrangements are in the hands of the various sporting bodies, and the programme of events includes, tennis, billiards, snooker, and cricket matches. An official dinner will be held on the evening of December 29.
The cricket, billiards, and tennis events are :n competition for the Dewar’s trophy—a silver cup recently presented by John Dewar and Sons Ltd., of Australia. The visitors will return to the gold fields on December 30.
Rev. Brother Raphael, formerly head master of the Catholic Mission’s Boys’
School at Ra, Navinibitu Province, Fiji, arrived in Sydney by the Niagara on December 2. He will spend six months’ furlough in Australia, and before return ing to the Colony will undergo an opera tion at the Mater Misericordiae Private Hospital, Crow’s Nest, N.S.W.