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I'To'the'Editor
i| Srnp-I'see by your paper « of the Six''is inclined to rttsh into; .! print. ''If he wottVd confine himself to , the truth'it not matter. The : . points in the late quoit match are correct, as 'also'is'the fact that the Aka'rda tteata -agreed % go on the following Thursday. 'But word was sent to them on that we could not get a team. Again, he says that the Akaroa Firsts have nearer been beaten which is crtnect. The team with which We played against Dtjvaucbelle's consisted of two firsts, three seconds, and » man they were kind Enough to lend Us. Again, the pitch was nearly afoot too 'long : ; and two of the Duvauchelle's; men were rung in, as "they played in the; Pigeon Bay : Qaoit Olub tournament. ' One of the Six' again rays that the six players were dead on the peg—a statement which is hard to believe, as on 'that day a southerly gale Was blowing, and the wind blows straight on to the pitch.—Yours f etc v ONE OF THE FIVE.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2097, 23 October 1896, Page 3
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171QUOITS. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2097, 23 October 1896, Page 3
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