P-NG Empire
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apuan To Lead P-NG Empire Games Team
\ Papuan Assistant Patrol
icer, Leana Gari, has been tied captain of the 22-member m to represent Papua - New inea at the Commonwealth I Empire Games in Perth in vember. \RI, 22, who is stationed at Rabaul, is expected to compete the 100-yard sprint and in the ly.
Tie team will be the first from P r to contest international athletics its own right and not as part of dralia. It contains natives and opeans from both territories—lo letes, four boxers, seven bowlers one weightlifter. besides Gari, the athletes are New and high jumper Edward Labo- I, sprinter Bruce Richter, of Port resby, Australian broad jump mpion Alan Crawley, John Kapu and Damien Midi (both in the 0, Robin Barclay (pole vault), Oe harea and Tony Herriot (javelin), I sprinter Labert, an able seaman, Manus. lectional manager, Mr. F. P. Kaad, 4G District Commissioner, ran in Empire Games 220 hurdles in Iney in 1938. fhe boxing team is Ken Hopkins, it middle weight, his brother Terry pkins, light weight, Arthur To ira, light welter weight, and itthew Julius, bantam weight.
Caputin, Laboram, Midi, Ivaharea, maira and Julius are all natives, putin, a Tolai, is married to a mer Perth girl and they now live Port Moresby. \ Chinese boy from Rabaul, David ;to, a bantam-weight, is the weight er nominated.
Fhe bowlers are George Page, Rod iley and Bill Holding, of Port iresby, and Wally Jackson, Lon rnes, Bill Schleusner and Harry Ison, of Lae.
Lhe manager of the Territories m is former star quarter-miler and istralian Olympic captain Kevan >sper, now an oil company execu e in Rabaul.
The team is scheduled to leave P j for Australia on November 14.
The Games, starting on November and continuing until December 1, II be opened by the Duke of inburgh. En route the Duke will ike a brief stop at Nadi, Fiji, on jvember 20.
Above are six members of the P-NG Empire Games team chosen from New Britain. They are, from left to right, David Seeto, Leana Gari, Ken Hopkins, Terry Hopkins, Edward Laboram and Damien Midi. Gari is captain of the full 22-man P-NG team. Below, Terry Hopkins beats Warwick Richter on a second round TKO in a Territory championship held recently in Lae.
Photos: C. H. Meen