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Newspaper Article 2002 – HB woman made Games history
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- Newspaper Article 2002 – HB woman made Games history
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HB woman made Games history Hastings widow Rona McCarthy, formerly Rona Tong, was one of New Zealand’s first two female Empire Games medalists. She has fond memories of the build-up to those Games 64 years ago and is proud of her success. Doug Laing reports. It is forever recorded in the daily papers of February 14, 1938...
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- Newspaper
- Date created
- 3 August 2002
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- Doug Laing
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- Miss Barbara Burke / Beatrice Faumuina / Miss Betty Forbes / Miss Grant / Miss Clarise Kennedy / Les McCarthy / Rona McCarthy (nee Tong) / Frank Sharpley / Commonwealth Games / Empire Games / news article 2002 / Sport and Recreation / MCCARTHY RI / Sport
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