MAORI ALL BLACKS WIN

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25289, 15 September 1947, Page 5

MAORI ALL BLACKS WIN

TAIRAWHITI beaten in fast game . GISBORNE. September 14. Whit/ m 0 1? All Blacks beat the Tairacn representatives at Ruatoria Lp ;\L rday - by 24 points to 11. The th» one of the day’s big events of Med remoniPS at Ruatoria. It pro-I foe spectators with an exhilarat- • at times, but there was a Th* ’ o - to ° much kicking. All m a 7t penor combination of the Maori •blew «? S ’ Particularly in the scrums, enSip 9 . rp ‘ t° feed their backs, giving the DV wi eig • ’ Proc tor and Delamefe, and w H? s ‘three-quarters. Cherrington, Was chances. The Tairawhiti pack its nd ’' nfused Plenty of dash into Jull-hT»i an pidifferent start. George Nepia. tu ack . O 1 the 1924 invincibles. u’as one fashJf of the day. He showed fjratp’,. * , °?d-time ferm. handling acPowpwMn Skiing strongly and kicking 11 nnirjl ly ' He scored eight of his team’s Wl l b two penalty goals and a t*enrv S 1 n ’ One Penalty goal from the bfe-iir,’ - e . £nd three yards from the u. l J? to *be teeth of a cross-wind, iSTO bv Mr s S. Dean, chairew Zealand Rugby Union, as In A/finest goals he had ever seen. Srst spell - J Goldsmith and K. Carth/ ? rc °red tries, one of which Mc--8 Benni* Onverted - McCarthy also kicked Mu °°? ! for the Maori All Blacks, -h fnr •? rPC?ter Pcore d and Neola convertCh^.Z? !rawhit ’ In the second half, N. ijggngton, M. Tuaea. and H. Ranapi Cartel “ ,e =». two being converted by Mca* Maori All Blacks while v hiti WcKed two penalties for Taira-