FANNING ISLAND
« NEW YEAR SPORTS GATHERING. (Rec. January 2, 0.15 p.m.) Fanning Island, January 1. A New Year sports at the Pacific cablo slntion was an immense success. Two hundred Gilbert Islanders enthusiastically competed, in boxing, sprinting, mat.making, and tug-of-war competitions. 'litis lonely atoll in mid-Pacific is the temporary homo of New Zealand, Aus[raUan, and English cable officers. Notwithstanding the strenuous present-day cTiWe work they lind time to display an Annie keenness for sport a fill' an cx.ample fo tho natives of what has gone far in Empire building. The-concluding event was a tug-of-war between New Zealand ami Australian operators. . Tn the fiitSl tho Maoriiandors secured a closoly-contestcd victory.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 84, 3 January 1920, Page 7
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110FANNING ISLAND Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 84, 3 January 1920, Page 7
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