1966 South
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Dates Set For
Pacific Games
The organising committee of the Second South Pacific Games to be held in Noumea next year recently decided that the games would extend over 10 days— from Friday, August 26 to Sun
day, September 4, 1966.
rPHE opening ceremony will be held A on the afternoon of August 26, which, it is hoped, will be declared a public holiday. The closing ceremony will also be held in the afternoon.
As laid down in the Games charter, there are three obligatory sports— athletics, tennis and soccer.
Eleven other sports may also be staged in Noumea—cycling, rugby, boxing, weight-lifting, swimming, table tennis, men’s and women’s basketball with five-member teams, men’s and women’s volleyball, and women’s basketball with seven-member teams if participating territories can supply officials.
This would represent four more sports than were staged at the First South Pacific Games in Suva in September, 1963. There, cycling, weight-lifting, women’s volleyball and women’s basketball with five member teams were not on the pro gramme. There was women’s basketball with seven-member teams.
Emblem Contest The Organising Committee of the Noumea Games also decided recently to extend the time limit for its de sign contest for an emblem for the Games, details of which were pub lished in PIM last month (p. 41).
The deadline is now March 1, 1965, instead of January 31, to give people in territories where communications are slow the opportunity to get their entries in on time.
The contest is only open to residents of the South Pacific territories eligible to compete in the Games.
The International Federa
tion of Underwater Sports decided at a recent meeting in Geneva to hold the 1965 World Spearfishing Championship in New Caledonia. At least 60 participants will come from Europe and America, accompanied by at least 40 assistants.