“Just Like True Maoris”
“Like true Maoris, they wielded their sticks like battle axes,” ran a newspaper report after the New Zealand hockey team had played its first match on its recent Australian tour. After that, members of the team were prepared for the unusual, according to lan Smith, of Mount Pleasant, who plays for Sydenham Club and Canterbury. Other features of the tour were the fiftytwo speeches of welcome in one day at Ipswich, handling snakes at a small farm near Adelaide, and the dozen or more broken sticks which were brought back as souvenirs. Smith said that the grounds varied from excellent to very rough, _ and there was the inevitable cricket pitch in the centre of most of them.. The Australians were lavish in their hospitality, said Smith, and none of the team was likely to forget the farewell ball in a hurry.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 83, 16 August 1950, Page 7
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