Inter-Mission Sports
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Prom Our Own Correspondent.
Samara!, May 2.
rr\HE town of Samarai was full of visitors 1 in mid-April, when teams of native boys from the Kwato, Dobu, Fife Bay and Dogura Mission Stations, escorted by European representatives, ar rived to take part in the Inter-Mission Sports Week, which had been organised by the mission bodies.
The mission lads took the keenest in terest in the various contests, a very good spirit was evident throughout, and the whole of the proceedings and functions so pleased the Europeans of Samarai that the wish was generally expressed that the sports week would be made an annual affair.
The cricket shield was won by the Fife Bay team and the football shield by the Kwato and Dogura teams to hold for 6 months each, as they came to a tie.
Miss Olwyn Rutherford, of the Auck land iN.ZJ Museum visited Tarawa. G. ind E. Colony recently, via Ocean Island, per the Government auxiliary vessel ‘Kiakia”. to carry out ethnological re search work for the Museum. She re turned to New Zealand with preliminary research reports, w T ith a view to a re turn visit later.