A LONELY HOME.
SPORTS AT'FANNING ISLAND. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright, Received Jan. 2, fl'.l'S p.m. Fanning Island, Jan. 2. ' , A. New Year sports gathering at the 'Pacifle cable station was an immense success. Two hundred Gilbert Islanders enthusiastically competed in boxing, sprinting, mat-making, and tug of war. This lonely atoll in mid-Pacific is the temporary home of New Zealand, Australian, and English cable officers, and notwithstanding the strenuous present-day cable work, they find time to display ah Anzac keenness 'for sport, and give an example to the natives of what has goae far in Empire building. The concluding event was a tug-of-war between the New Zealand and Australian operators, and in the final the Maorilanders secured a closelycontested victory.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1920, Page 5
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120A LONELY HOME. Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1920, Page 5
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