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Life in Early Poverty Bay

His Love of Sport

His Love of Sport.

Cricketers throughout the district and visiting teams played their matches in one of the paddocks where “W.L.” laid down an excellent pitch and a very fair fielding ground, levelling, turfing, watering, rolling incessantly, early and late, with the help of his three young sons, Lincoln, Arthur and Ted—the last barely in his teens. Tennis flourished vigorously, four courts being all in demand when forty or fifty players assembled.

One of the most exuberantly happy gatherings was when Mr and Mrs Rees invited all the school children and then, hating invidious distinctions, extended the invitation to any children. Games, a programme of sports with attractive prizes; an open-air feast with liquid refreshments—mostly pink—cakes and fruit galore—surely the memory of the party will be cherished by some of those children of over forty years ago.