Rabaul Baseball Premiership
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A recent census reveals that there were 19,415 head of cattle in New Caledonia in L 950, compared with 74,550 in the previous The number is about 14,000 less ;han pre-war. Last year the meat caniery, which sends its produce to the French Army and other French posesiions, was operating from April to November.
At Nasinu Training College, Fiji on January 20, Mataika Tuicakau broke the Fiji record and bettered his winning per formance at the recent Canterbury Cen tennial Games by putting the shot 50 ft. 91 ins. In the javelin throw Semi Qio beat Luke Tunabuna, winner of the Cen tennial Games event, and established a new record of 186 ft. 61 ins.
A special requiem mass was celebrated in St. John’s Anglican Cathedral, Bris bane, on January 29, for Papuan natives and European missionaries killed in the Mt. Lamington eruption.
This team of Rabaul baseballers won the championship for 1950. Back row (left to right): R. L.
Stanley, E. A. Turnbull, G. R. Leighton, J. M. Hudspith. W. P. Bennett. Front row: M. S. Guina (captain), J. D. de Fraine, H. C. Avenell (coach), V. E. M. Sellwood, I. Morrison.
Photo by C. H. Meen.