Patients and crew enjoy a quoits tournament aboard the hospital ship Maheno in 1918. Like boxing, quoits was a popular diversion whenever the seas were calm enough to enable people to use the decks.
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'Quoits game on the Maheno', URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/quoits-game-maheno, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 19-Aug-2014
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