Successful Season
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Rarotonga Golfers Conclude
Rarotonga, May 20.
THIS photograph shows members of the Rarotonga Golf Club. It was taken recently after the end-of-the season meeting and presentation of trophies.
The formation of the golf-club is a recent affair—October 1948—and was due largely to the arrival of a seasoned golfer, Mr. C. Peagram, as local manager of the Union Steamship Company, and to the kindly co-operation of the Civil Avia tion authorities and the Aerodromes Maintenance Branch of the PWD who permitted a course to be laid out round the broad, green verges of the air-strip.
The course is 4,000 yards, with 18 holes, 66 bogey, longest hole 487 yards. The clubhouse is, temporarily, the aerdrome quonset hut, but the club plans to erect a native-style building.
The present membership is 30, includ ing a number of ladies. Many of the players are beginners, but Mr. Peagram and a few other experienced players have given much of their spare time to coach ing.
Patron of the club is the Resident Commissioner, Mr. W. Tailby; president, Mr. M. B. Baker; senior vice president, Mr. A. A. Bailey; junior vice-president, Judge A. McCarthy; club captain, Mr.
C. Peagram; secretary, Mr. H. McKegg.
Principal prize winners at the end of the first season were: patron’s trophy,
Ist equal, Mr. H. McKegg and Mr. W.
A. McKenzie; president’s trophy, Mr. M.
B. Baker; captain’s trophy, Mr. L. Cook; senior championship, Mr. C. Peagram; runner-up, Mr. L. Cook; junior champion ship, Mr. W. A. McKenzie (presented by H. McKegg Esq.); runner-up, Mr. H.
Lorimer; ladies championship, Miss C.
Jervis; runner-up, Mrs. Peagram.
Although the season is officially ended, members will continue to make use of the course, but serious competition is impossible at this time of the year owing to the prevailing winds.