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Rh while cricket and football are most actively pursued by the young men of all classes.

New Zealanders take great delight in music and in dancing, and they take every opportunity of indulging their tastes in this direction. Concerts and assemblies of every description are frequent, and are most popular and well attended, whilst, on the country stations, the shearers hold similar levées after their day's work is over, and, in music of no mean order, dances, songs and stories, they while away their evenings.