Bright Green Horse Wins Rabaul Turf Club’s Race

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7412, 20 December 1930, Page 22

Bright Green Horse Wins Rabaul Turf Club’s Race

QUAINT CUSTOM OF NEW GUINEA

ORSE RACING lias a great attraction for the natives of Rabaul, the Administrative capital of New Guinea. In the nntivo rae.fi at the last

the seducer is clubbed to death. The unfaithful wife is sometimes treated in this fashion also. Sometimes the natives thinks he is well rid of his erring wife, and goes

meeting of the Rabaul Turf Club, an old white horse that looked as if it could not run a hundred yards, was painted bright green and named Green Streak (by Paintbrush from Paint Tin).

Green Streak led all the way and won by several lengths, with the native rider’s loin cloth fluttering bravely in the breeze. The Rabaul native has a great penchant for worn-out razor blades, often taking them in preference to tobacco or any other gift. With these they shave off unruly whiskers and fashion images from wood. Divorce courts are unknown in Rabaul, but the natives have many ways of getting satisfaction if their wives desert them. Two popular ways are to drag the erring wife back after clubbing her companion, or to claim alimony—or blood-money. Passengers on the Administrative yacht Franklin, which returned, to Sydney recently, said that if a “Mary” runs away with another native, the deserted husband will spend months on their trail. When caught