OUTPOST OF EMPIRE.
SPORTS AT FANNING ISLAND.
(By Cable—Prr«s Associate!— Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. FANNING ISLAND, January 2 A New Year sports gathering at the Pacific Cable station was a splendid, success. Two hundred Gilbert Islanders enthusiastically competed in the events which included boxing, sprinting, matmaking, and a tug-of-war. This lonely atoll in the mid-Pacific is tho temporary home of New Zealand, Australian, and English cablo officers. Notwithstanding their strenuous pre-sent-day cablo work, they find time to display a keenness for sport., and an example to the natives of what has gone far in Empire building. The concluding event was n tug-of-war between tho Now Zealand and Australian operators. In tho final bont the New Zcalanders secured a closely-con-tested victory.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16722, 3 January 1920, Page 8
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