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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22607, 26 June 1935, Page 2

The white man's games seem to be almost as dangerous as his vices to somf native races, for, according to an official report from Badu Island, off the northernmost tip of Australia, it has been found necessary to forbid the islanders to play marbles, their enthusiasm for that recently imported pastime having led to neglect of the fishing and shell-gathering on which their livelihood depends. A similar ban had to be laid on cricket some years ago in Tonga. Having learnt the same when at school in New Zealand, the late King Tubow II introduced it among his subjects, and found cause for regret. Very soon he had to restrict play to one day a week to ward off the famine threatened by neglect of the plantations.