[?]Otball And Cricket
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[?]Ours Proposed For
Fijians
SHE is a considerable amount of off-again-on-again business about the projected Australian of a Fijian Rugby Union team.
Hr. P. A. Snow’, now on leave te UK, is still hopeful that a of Fijian cricketers will visit md.* jotiations are taking place the MCC, and it is believed if a tour did take place it I attract a great deal of in satest obstacle to such a tour i be the heavy cost of return ges. ;re is still considerable doubt as ether a tour of Fiji footballers be arranged for the coming alian season. The tour was dtely on" at the end of Janu lefinitely off at the beginning ;bruary; and, at the end of month, the Australian Rugby i was considering fresh pro ■ shilly-shallying appears to I on the part of the Austra- The Australian Union’s are at a low ebb, although of the clubs are well off and is divided opinion as to ter the Fijians would be ent of a draw-card to make our a financial success—for ustralian Union, is very much terra incognita istralians. There is not the community of interest as be- New Zealand and Fiji, or m Australia and New Guinea.
On Again
as decided at a meeting of the Rugby Union Council in early i to reverse the previous de and to invite a Fiji Union II team to tour Australia this i. ie members of the Council still rat the project is “dangerous sky’’ and that the Union could lose heavily, but they were ed by 36 votes to 11.
Snow has since resigned from the vernment and will remain in the ee elsewhere. tain H. McGavock, formerly of the Stella Maris (New les) and more recently of the a (New Guinea) is expected to to Madang from Australia rch. pupil of the Presbyterian College, Melbourne, 16 year idith Emerson, has won the rship which entitles her to ►nths study at La Perouse ?, Noumea, New Caledonia, ft for Noumea on February
The 44 ft. New Guinea work boat, which was reported overdue at Kavieng on February 21, was sighted off New Hanover on Febru ary 24. On board were Asolo Salin, native member of the P-NG Legislative Council, six other natives and two Chinese. The boat left Tabar for Kavieng on Febru
ary 15 and should have taken about two days.
Mrs. Peebles, wife of the late First-Officer S. Peebles, who lost his life on December 13, when a.
Qantas Dragon plane crashed near Mt. Hagen, NG, gave birth to a daughter in Sydney on February 16