GREAT GOAL-POSTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 171, 22 July 1930, Page 14

GREAT GOAL-POSTS.

WHANGAREI PREPARATIONS.

FOR BRITISH TEAM'S VISIT,

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WHANGAREI, this day. Painting to the skies, four kauri posts at Rugby Park stand as monuments to New Zealand's national sport in the same way as the obelisks of the Egyptians told of great deeds in olden times. A working bee of 28 people assembled during the week-end to erect giant posts, secured especially in honour of the coming of the British team. A few experts were helped by many inexperienced but exceptionally strong men. A team of fifteen was required to shoulder the biggest posts, which stand on average 46 feet high, and lend an air of distinction to the ground. 1 These goal-posts are the finest in the North, if not in the Dominion. . Each post is flagged; at-one end-of the ground the Union' Jack flutters from, the highest pole with the light blue of North Auckland opposite. Other posts are flagged with the New Zealand ensign, and the dark blue colours of the British team. Rugby Park has beeu rolled and mown, and further accommodation has been provided.