They’re Hoping For
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A Trip to Perth
A Papuan trainee-teacher who dominated a Northern Queens land inter-school athletics car nival last year is likely to repre sent Papua-New Guinea this year at the Perth Empire games.
She is Raka Boto, who ran a record 11,9 for the 100 and won the 50, 75 and 220-yard events last year at Charters Towers while attending Black heath College.
Raka is Papua’s outstanding girl athlete, and probably better than most rivals from the Trust Territory of New Guinea, ac cording to amateur athletics offi cials in Port Moresby.
Meanwhile, on the New Guinea side, the wild Kukukuku natives are reported to be amazed at the prowess of Patrol Officer Tony Heriot, 21, in hurling a javelin long distances.
Heriot has been practising for a place at the Perth Games at his patrol post in the Kuku kuku country, and has been reaching 19 5 ft. Heriot was win ner of Victoria’s junior javelin throw (175//.) in 1958. Scores of natives watch the patrol of ficer’s sessions.