Fiji Cricketers For New
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Zealand
ANEW ZEALAND newspaper says that it is expected that a team of Fijian cricketers will tour New Zealand during the coming season Disappointed at the inability of the Indian cricket team (now in Australia) to fit in a tour of New Zealand, the New Zealand Cricket Council has been making every endeavour to bring some overseas side to New Zealand this summer. Should the Fijians be able to make the trip their appearance in New Zealand, it is thought, would give the game a substantial fillip.
The Fijians are good cricketers. In fact, as “tearaway” bowlers and as fields men they are reputed to have no superiors anywhere in the world.
The Rev. R. A. Woodgate, 8.A., B.ED„ and Mrs. Woodgate, with their children, Helen and Rodger, are now bound for Nukualofa, Tonga. Mr. Woodgate will succeed the Rev. E. V. Newman, 8.A., 8.D., B.Litt., as the principal of Tupou College, Nafualu. He goes out from the Queensland Methodist Conference, but has this year resided at the George Brown College in Sydney, where he has com pleted the Missionary Training Course.
The following have recently been appointed Lands Commissioners in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony by the Acting High Commissioner of the Western Pacific: Mr. B. C. Cartland (Chief Land Commissioner); Mr. P. B. Laxton, Mr.
M. M. Townsend; and Mr. A. C. Lake.