Fiji Organises For S. Pacific Games
pp. 63-65 · Read in the full issue
At a meeting in Suva on November 27 of the Organising Committee for the first South Pacific Games, it was decided to accept a local construction company’s tender of £F13,250 to provide an additional pavilion and other facilities at Buckhurst Park, where the Games will be held in September, 1963.
The new pavilion will seat about 720 people, and will have 10 changing rooms and 30 showers. A floodlit
court for basketball and tennis, with seating, will also be provided, while terraced accommodation opposite the maln . s, ? nd ml P rov,de im P roved vtew.ng for spectators.
Work on improvements to provide an all-weather track to international standards will begin shortly. All weather “run-ups” for the jumping pits, and concrete circles for the throwing events, will also be in stalled. Four more football fields will be provided, making six in all.
cording to reports in "PIAA's" yacht section from cruising yachtsmen in ast few years, a warm welcome is always guaranteed yachtsmen who found themselves passing through lesian waters. But the latest report, Mr. Homer O. Parrish, of the ketch Santana", tells another story—a story ospitality and friendship—and Mr. h asks us to publish it to alleviate loubts and fears of other yachtsmen ling to sail in Indonesian waters.
Parrish and his ketch in December at the Singapore Boatel.