Sports Review

Shining Light

Women's Golf

SHINING light in Fiji golf is Mrs. Arthur Thomas, of Vatu mula, who started to play golf this year, and has ended the by reducing her handicap to 10 mean achievement for any r. ring the year she won the Lux iic Islands Trophy, which was id throughout the Pacific by t 250 women, on their own >es. Her handicap during this lament was 36. her achievements for Norma nas this year were runner-up

in the B grade North West Associ ates Championship, and winner of the Vatukoula Associates’ Club Championship.

Mrs. Thomas was a representative hockey player before she took up golf. Before her marriage she was Norma A’Costa, and the name of A’Costa is a well known one in Fiji sporting circles.

Apakuki Does A Job

Of Public Relations

By a Special Reporter Apakuki tuitavua, whose love for rugby is such that he still plays an occasional game at the age of 44, is currently in Sydney on a “busman’s holiday”, and putting in a little bit of quiet pro paganda for the code in Fiji.

Apakuki, on long leave, is turning it to good advantage in a study of animal husbandry to help in his work as a veterinary officer in the Fiji Department of Agriculture.

He publicly announced the day of his arrival in Sydney that the Fiji rugby team, which will tour Australia next year, had “a good chance” of winning the tests. With many promising young players com ing along Apakuki is not likely to be far out of his predictions.

Apakuki has had a long and dis tinguished career in rugby. He was a member of the Fijian team which toured New Zealand in 1939 (this was the first team ever to make an unbeaten tour of the Dominion, and no team has yet emulated that record), while in 1952 and 1954 he was captain of the Fijian teams which toured Australia.

In 1957 he was co-manager of the Fijian team on their contro versial tour of New Zealand.

P-NG Says It

Will Show The World

PAPUA -NEW GUINEA sportsmen were jubilant in November when the news came through that the Territory will be permitted to take part in the next British Em pire Games, in Perth, in 1962, using its own identity.

P-NG sporting officials had moved to get permission for this ( PIM, Nov., p. 7) after chafing at the fact that a Port Moresby team of sportsmen had been prohibited from competing in the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne “because P-NG is not a country”.

Said chairman of the provisional P-NG Empire Games committee, Mr. Les Michel, in Port Moresby: “This is the chance for sport in the Territory to come of age. We must work together to show the world what Papua-New Guinea can do.”

Time Out For Fight

Papua-new guinea natives are often spoiling for a fight.

In some parts of the big Terri tory they still fight for keeps—• with bow and arrow and stone club.

But down in the more civilised areas they like a fight, too, and nowhere is this more obvious than on the sports field. Every season there are reports of brawls among native players, some serious.

The latest was in Lae in early December when 700 natives be came involved after a member of a Markham soccer team was critically injured during a match against a Finschhafen team. Among those charged with riotous behaviour was the captain of the Markham team.

He was fined £l.

Samoan Sports

Excitement is high as com petitors change batons in the senior boys’ relay at the Inter secondary School sports held at Apia. Students from Samoa College, LDS Church College of Western Samoa, Marist, St.

Mary’s and Teachers Training College competed in the sports.

Photo: Samoana

Mrs. Arthur Thomas