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Men's Grand Final for the 1962 season. Dixies defeat All Blacks 29-16. Names several players and offers a detailed overview of the game.
Torres News 1962 October 23 p. 6
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Men's team lists and captains for the 1962 basketball season.
Sharks (Brian Carnes)
Tigers (Bob Elliott)
All Blacks (John Turner)
Dixies (G. Seden)
Torres News 1962 March 6 p. 6
Torres News 1962 March 27 p. 5
Women's team lists and captains.
Rovers (Loretta Tatipata)
Blues (C. Drummond)
Comrades
7 Up’s (aka Nurses)
Torres News 1962 March 6 p. 6
Torres News 1962 March 20 p. 5
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Port Moresby players travel to Thursday Island for several basketball games. Detailed overviews and player scores provided.
Torres News 1961 December 5 p. 6
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24 rep players from Thursday Island travel to Cairns for a weekend of basketball, winning 'the hearts and praise from all spectators'. Detailed overview of several games and results provided.
Torres News 1961 June 20 p. 6
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Thursday Island rep. team plays a team of 'Yankee Mormons'. Though they suffered a loss, T.I. were not disgraced.
Torres News 1961 April 4 p. 6
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Women's Grand Final for the 1961 season. Mercurys (C Drummond) defeated Hudsons 48-18. Detailed overview of the game provided.
Torres News 1961 September 15 p. 5
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Men's Grand Final for the 1961 season. Saints defeated Dixies 34-31. Names several players and offers a detailed overview of the game.
Torres News 1961 October 3 p. 7
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Men's teams for the 1960 basketball season (no team lists found).
Grand (Don Wright)
Saints (Elder Black)
Dixies
Tigers
Comrades
Torres News 1961 March 21 p. 6
Women's teams (lists included).
Mercury
Saints
Hudsons
Hornets
H’angels
No-Hopers (Doctor Woolford)
Torres News 1961 April 4 p. 5
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Two teams of basketball players and some supporters make the trip to Papua New Guinea for the 'best weekend they had ever spent'. Thursday Island lose two good matches. No scoresheet available, but detailed overview and team/supporter list is provided.
Torres News 1960 November 15 pp. 5-6
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Thursday Island mens and ladies rep. teams travel to Cairns for a basketball trip. Detailed overviews and player scores listed.
Torres News 1960 October 4 pp. 5-7
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Described as 'probably the biggest sporting event in the history of the Island', 15 basketball players from Papua New Guinea to play against Thursday Island rep teams. No scores are found, but an overview of the game is provided in the Torres News.
Torres News 1960 June 14 (p. 6 i & ii).
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Women's Grand Final for the 1960 season. Mercurys defeat Hudsons 56-35. Names several players and offers a detailed overview of the game.
Torres News 1960 August 16 p. 5
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Men's Grand Final for the 1960 season. Comets defeated Tokais 36-26. Names several players and offers a detailed overview of the game.
Torres News 1960 August 16 1960 p. 5
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Men's teams for the 1960 basketball season (no team lists found).
Buffs
Comets
Comrades
Stars
Tokai
Torres News 1960 March 22 p. 5
Women's teams and captains.
Mecurys (Lucy Sabatino)
Hudsons (Margaret May)
Hornets (Nurses) (Millie Peters)
Globe Trotters (Nursing Sisters)
Wildcats (D. Rawlings)
Torres News 1960 March 29 p. 2
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Women's Grand Final for the 1959 season. Mercury’s champions for the season. Score and opponent unknown.
Torres News 1959 October 6 p. 5
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Men's Grand Final for the 1959 season. Comets (George Seden) defeated Comrades (Bertie Mosby) 54-30. Names several players and offers a detailed overview of the game.
Torres News 1959 September 15 p. 5
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Men's team lists and captains for the 1958 basketball season (team names in article were changed later in the season).
Comrades (originally M. Salee)
Buffs (R. Majid)
Tokai (Y. Davis)
Comets (B. Shibasaki)
Torres News 1959 April 28 p. 5
Women's team lists and captains.
Canaries (P. Toby)
Wongais (P. Walsh)
Newtons (D. Berolah)
Hudsons (K. Ware)
Mercury (Lucy Sabitano)
Torres News 1959 April 28 p. 6
Torres News 1959 May 5 p. 5
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Women's Grand Final (date unknown) - Mercury's defeated Rovers. No detailed article was found, though the competing teams were mentioned in a 'Basketball Presentation Dance' article on the 5th of November.
Torres News 1957 November 5 p. 5
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Men's team lists and captains for the 1958 basketball season.
Whites (Don Brown)
Blues (Jerry Holmes)
Green (Later ‘Golds’) (George Seden)
Comrades (Red) (Richard Majid)
Torres News 1958 June 24 p. 6
Women's team lists and captains.
Albatross
GFS [Girls’ Friendly Society]
Nurses (Islander team) (Guneur Kudub)
Sisters (white team) (June Cabena)
Mercury's (Lucy Sabitino)
Comrades (Kailang Ware)
Torres News 1958 September 9 p. 5
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Women's Grand Final for the 1958 Season. Mercury's defeated Comrades 39-24. Names several players and offers a detailed overview of the game.
Torres News 1958 December 9 p. 5
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Men's Grand Final for the 1958 season. Golds (Greens changed their name to Golds this season) defeated Reds (aka Comrades of St George) 38-30. Names several players and offers a detailed overview of the game.
Torres News 1958 November 4 p. 6.
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Men's Grand Final 2/10/1957: Blues (George Seden) defeated Greens (Fr. Collins) 33-16. Names several players and offers a detailed overview of the game.
Torres News October 8 1957 p. 6
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Men's team lists and captains for the 1957 basketball season. This is the first time for many years that basketball has been played, by the men, on TI.
Men's teams:
Blues
Greens
Whites
Golds
Women's teams:
Mercury's
Trochus
Rovers
Peppers
Zebras
Orchids
GFS
Torres News 1957 June 18 p. 5-6
Torres News 1957 August 20 p. 5
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Article looking towards the October 1994 All Black's Carnival. Last year's champions the Woorabinda Warriors look forward to hosting a wide range of teams. Photograph of Harrison Blair and Charmaine Freeman.
Woorabinda News Summer 1994 p. 3
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Jockey in Brisbane at 13. Working on pearling luggers in TI at 19 (p. 18).
"My real dad was a Phillipino; my foster father is Indonesian, he’s an Indonesian High
Priest, very high. Bin Hussein Assan" (p. 18).
Served in Malaya (p. 19).
In mid-90s worked as the cook at the Rehabilitation Centre in Rockhole
community near Katherine (p. 21).
"Tony Assan’s story: I battled to get this", in Maggie Brady, ed. "Giving away the Grog: Aboriginal accounts of drinking and not drinking", Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, 2012 [1995], pp. 18-21:
https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2020/09/giving-away-the-grog-aboriginal-accounts-of-drinking-and-not-drinking.pdf
