THE NATIONAL GAME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 158, 6 July 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE NATIONAL GAME.

Mr. Te Ari Pitania welcoming the Indian hockey team at Tuahihi said the haka had unrecognised potentialities as an exercise. It, exercised the muscles and the vocal organs too. Mr. Masud, replying in Hindustani, said he would tell the people of New Zealand to drop all other forms of exercise and to adopt the haka alone. Halt! before you send All Blacks to play in Bliglity, Do not do it! I'lny the haka —far less flighty, And pursue it. Co not risk the deadly scrum, But distort your naked turn, In n linka. Wave the good old grfeenstone mere, Keeps the failing slender —very! And- as brown as any berry, Kia kalia! Does a fellow for the game of cricket pine, Stop him early ! He will miss the botiyline Straight or curly. Bet him rather with grimace Imitate the Maori race In Tnranaki. Bet him then protrude his tongue, Let him exercise his lung, As the warrior oft has sung Ake! Ake ! When the haughty golfer lifts his shiny stitfc, Bid him stay ! Demand that he shall stop his foolish trick, Oh, say him nay ! And with his accents flowery, Bet him imitate the Maori In sonnta. Bet htm oscillate his eyes (He can do it if he tries), Bet him sing for exercise, Waiatn ! When the bowler rolls his lignum up the green, . Make him stin it! Ask ill in what the deuce he means. Make him stop it! Take him ./by his a-ged shoulder, 'Foro lie is a minute older To the pah. Bet him wrar his bowling mat, Tapering without his hat, May lie slieti his excess fat. ' Ha ! When the Maorilander wields a hockey stick, Tell him "don't!" Can he learn the haka trick. P'raps he won't? Toll him in gootl Hindustani, That his game is milk and panee, Bet him try ! A hop—Turia te haka, Bet her go! No rudOy slacker. •Imitate your brother blacker, Tokara! Pai! —C.J.