Missions – Description – Sport - 1927
Item
Sport
Recreation See all items with this value
Cricket See all items with this value
Football See all items with this value
Traditional Games See all items with this value
Communities Involved
Yarrabah See all items with this value
Year
1927
Place
Church-run missions, includng Yarrabah See all items with this value
Title
Missions – Description – Sport - 1927
Description
"Recreations.— This important side of the work has not been neglected. The usual outdoor sports, football, cricket, tennis, rounders, &c, are always popular. Hunting, fishing, and searching for bee's-nests or "sugar-bag" are also favourable pastimes for holidays. At some stations, as also in Torres Strait, the young people have entered keenly into the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movement. Besides providing a healthy recreation for them, this has been found to have important value, in that they display keen interest and strive to acquire, as a sport, efficiency in many of the manual and domestic arts it was desired to afford them instruction in". (DNA Annual Report for 1927, p. 12)
competitionType
Local