Yarrabah – Foundation Day Sports – Yarrabah – 1919
Item
Sport
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Competition Type
Community-based
Communities Involved
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Start Date
August 1919
Place
Title
Yarrabah – Foundation Day Sports – Yarrabah – 1919
Description
“Yarrabah and the Influenza” and update on previous cyclone report. Flu swept Y in August 1919. Includes a report on the Foundation Day Sports in 1919, which were delayed until August (written by the acting chaplain of Y for 1919 – unnamed – possibly Rev Norman Michael). Implication is that the sports have been held in previous years. Sports held on Saturday and Monday. 320 people attended in 1919, with usual running and jumping and reg programme, and there were new events: pipe lighting competition, spear throwing and boomerang throwing and model yacht racing. Flu hit immediately afterwards. Source: North Queensland Notes, Undated, late 1920 pp. 772-776.
