AXEMEN'S CARNIVAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 20 December 1907, Page 2

AXEMEN'S CARNIVAL.

A great deal of the surplus physical ™"gy ot the masculine section of the community is concentrated in the spacious athletic pavilion on Eastern ilill troni time to time, said the .Melbourne Age lerently. Some remarkable feats ot human vigor and endurance have lieen witnessed there between man and man amid scenes of excitement. The hewers ot wood last night displaced boxers and u'restler*. and the axemen had noi buried their Hashing steel blades mam lime* in tsolid mountain asli ngs be I ore the large crowd of spectator became infeetod with the spirit of the magnificent .-p.n-l and cheered aipl an p an.leil i„ approval of it. thing in llic way of muscular efl'ort is more capable of arousing cntliiioiasti•• interest m the than the spectacle ol a dozen bronzed and brownv

ynng men, clear-eyed and clear-skiii-I n<-d. every sinew standing out with t 10 strain of the lask hewing their wav through us many fibrous hardwood mountain logs. Physical excellence w laired in the bush. and (he competitors arc the pick of (he country, and the ex ■Tcisc they shine in is the exercise that liir-t and foremost in devclopiii" a young country. A feature of the earnival was the number of la.lics w | lo watched the conic,ls with the keenest interest.

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