FOR THE SCHOOL PLAY HOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 133, 7 June 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)

FOR THE SCHOOL PLAY HOUR.

-Here are some outdoor. games that could be played in the play hour at school. *

From ten to thirty players can play this game. It is a rather strenuous game and affords opportunity for some very good exercise' and sport.

A line is drawn across each end of the playground, beyond .which the players stand in two equal parties, one at one end and one, at the other. The players of one party clasp hands to form a fish net. The players in the other party are fish.

At a given signal both advance towards the centre of the playground, which represents a stream, the object of the fish being to swim across to the opposite shore without being caught in the net. To do this they will naturally dodge around the ends of the net.

The net should enclose or encircle any fish that it catches. The fish so caught may not try to break apart the clasped hands forming the net, but may escape only through the opening ivhere the two ends come together. Should the net break at any point by any unclasping of hands the fish are all allowed to escape, and the players go back to their respective goals and begin over again. Any fish caught in the net thereafter are out of the game uutil all are caught. After the net has made one catch the sides exchange - parts, those of the fish that are left forming the new net, and the first net crossing to the other side and becoming fish. The two sides thus

exchange places and posts until all one Bide are caught. For a large number "of players it is better to have two' small nets instead of one large one, the dodging being livelier and the progress of the game more rapid in every way.