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1913 -- Porpoise Bay ball game

`Home Run' during a scrub ball game at Porpoise Bay. The area is just inshore from Herbert Whitaker's original Porpoise Bay wharf and also the government wharf, built 1923/1924. In later years Ted Osborne senior built a large shed to house vehicles at about the same site as this playground. The area is just west of the marsh and wildfowl refuge. Left to right: Holding tennis racquet Myrtle Dawe (married Sidney Guitard and also Norman Cook), sister of Sam Dawe, Hans Bordewick sliding into home plate, Dick Manning, back catcher, facing camera, Miss ? Brummitt, Miss Iris Brummitt, Miss Kjelsberg.

Photographer unknown