| Sports |
Special appeal to Wau, Bulolo
business
By SAMPSON BONAI
BUSINESS houses have
been urged to sponsor the sporting associations in Wau and
Bulolo, Morobe province, to lure young people into worthwhile
activities.
Bulolo rugby league president Sine Gene appealed to business
houses in two of the oldest towns in the country to come forward
and sponsor the code because it was no longer active due to lack
of corporate support.
“We have many business houses here who refuse to come forward to
help sponsor the league or the clubs in any little way to help
develop and foster the code in the two mining township because
this is where rugby league was first played in the 1930s during
the gold rush days,” Gene said.
“We have a local competition and the youths have given up
because of lack of support from the business community in the
area and have resorted to criminal activities to occupy their
time as they have nothing useful to do over the weekends,” he
said.
Gene said Wau rugby league had also “died a natural death” due
to lack of interest shown by the business houses.
Wau league president Kunol Palme said the lack of interest shown
by the players and officials to comply with PNGRFL requirements
to register all the players and officials had meant playing an
illegal competition this year.
“We have to comply with the mother body’s requirements to be
able to participate in all its sanctioned competition this year,
however, due to lack of interest by the business houses and the
players and officials we had no choice but to call off the
competition,” he said.
 
|
