Foot Racing In
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Suva
THESE three lads, E. Bar rack, L. Derrick, and G.
A. Whiteside, came first second and third respectively when the Fiji Cadets Sports Club held its first meeting in Suva in November.
The race was from the Club Hotel in Suva, to the Grand Pacific Hotel, and return.
This fact appears to have inspired cer tain residents of Suva who are not cadets, and it is said that 90 started in the race —66 of them being non-competitors.
Unofficial entrants fell by the wayside early in the piece ' A Police Department jeep cleared the route for the runners and controlled spectators.
„ „ „ , „ Mrs. G. B. Sowerby was a Malaita passenger for New Guinea this month.
She was bound for the Witu Group, where she will supervise the erection of a head stone on the grave of her cousin, the late Mrs. Gladys Baker, who passed away so tragically in December. 1946, ater having only just returned to her plantation, at Langu, in the Witu Group.