THE TRUE STORY.
TEMPTING THE ALL BLACKS. REPORT CONTRADICTED. LONDON, February 11. The "Daily Chronicle." in a Bpecial article whicli it calls "The True Story" of attempts to induce some of the All Blacks to join Northern Union clubs, says: "The team was barely a week in England before club agents began inquiries, but were coldly received. One agent paid the expenses of a non-play-ing member of the All Black party for a visit to Oldham, where it was disclosed that M. Brownlie, Nepia, Cooke, and Richardson would be particularly welcome transfers, but the quartet scorned the suggested defection. Agents then resorted to more direct methods to attract Nepia, who after the Ulster match was offered £1200 cash, plus a tempting bonus. Nepia naively says, 'But they didn't show mo the money.'" The writer contrasts these details with an earlier story that seven of the All Blacks took the initiative by an inquiry as to terms.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 36, 12 February 1925, Page 5
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