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Games Team Selection
Sporting organisations throughout the South Seas were all 11-advanced in early June in their plans to send teams to the t South Pacific Games in Suva between August 29 itember 7.
RE than 600 officials and athletes will take part in the 5. Latest developments are: Papua-New Guinea Amateur ic Association is using the s of the Fijian Amateur Athletic ation as its guide for choosing titors for the Suva Games, records are: 100 yards (9.8 220 yards (22.5 sec.), 440 (51.4 sec.), 880 yards, 2 min. ;.), One mile, (4 min. 35.4 sec.), limp (6 ft 4 in.), broad jump 6 in.), hop, step, and jump 8 in.), shot putt (50 ft 9i in.), (163 ft 7i in.), and 4 x 110 44.4 sec.). imminent Papua-New Guinea g official, Mr. Cyril Me ry, has been appointed man if the Territory’s team to go Suva Games.
McCubbery is secretary of the New Guinea Amateur Athletic ation and secretary of the New Guinea Amateur Sports was one of the people who I hard to organise a Territory ;ent to go to the Empire Games th last year. He was sectional "r for boxing and wrestling at rth Games.
May, the P-NG association gotiating to charter two aircraft *y competitors and officials to im Suva. The cost is estimated about £lO,OOO. selected its squad for train r the Games after the Tonga ur Athletic Association had i athletics meeting in February pril.
Cook Islands Sports Associa ad nearly £2,500 in hand by ay to cover the expenses of its 5 and officials at the South Games in Suva. The team’s 2s are estimated to be about RNZAF Hastings aircraft will the team from Rarotonga to vithout charge, but the Cook Sports Association will have the return fares, is in boxing, tennis and :s (the only sports that Cook athletes will take part in at ames) will be held in Raro
tonga in the first week gf June, when trialists from all the outer islands are expected in Rarotonga.
Local and overseas donations to the fund to send Solomon Islanders to the Games totalled £1,296 at the end of April.
An editorial in the Samoa News, Pago Pago, on May 27, said Govern ment officials were “carrying the ball” for American Samoa and called on private enterprise for greater support so that the American flag “could fly proudly at the Games”.
[See also Games Programme, p. 48.]