PAN-PACIFIC SPORTS
Mission By Atoll Owner "The Press" Special Service AUCKLAND, December 30. When Mrs E. Fullard-Leo and her husband wanted to get away from it all they bought 52 coral atolls in the Pacific. Mrs Fullard-Leo has come from Honolulu to attempt to interest sporting bodies in sending representatives to the Pan-Pacific International Sports at Honolulu. She has owned the Palmyra islands for nearly 40 years. During the last war they were used as a naval base by America. “We bought the islands because we wanted to get away from civilisation,” she said. The Pan-American International Sports will be held in Honolulu in July and August next year. Primarily they will be aquatic sports, but will also have wrestling, judo, and weight-lifting. “We have almost no facilities at present,” said Mrs FullardLeo, “but we hope that eventually the sports will serve the same purpose for the countries of the Pacific that the Olympic Games serve for the world.” Mrs Fullard-Leo, who writes a weekly sports column for the “Honolulu Advertiser,” was born in South Africa and has retained British nationality.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29401, 31 December 1960, Page 16
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