RUGBY FOOTBALL
PLAYING METHODS IN SOUTH AFRICA COMMENT BY CHAIRMAN OF WELLINGTON UNION (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 16. "Personally, I hope that the South African style of Rugby will never come here. If it does come, I think we should legislate against it,” said Mr J. N. Millard, chairman of the Wellington Rugby Ujiion’s management committee at last evening's annual meeting. Mr Millard said that while Rugby in Wellington last year had had many bright aspects, there had been an atmosphere of pessimism which he hoped would quickly lift. This Was because the All Blacks met in South Africa a type of football with which. they could not cope. Some people, he said, urged that New Zealand should follow South Africa’s methods, but his view was that the South African style should not be adopted here. He referred to the new Wellington coaching scheme. "We should devise our own game and play it,” said Sir Thomas Hunter, the retiring president. “Perhaps the boot might then be on the other foot.” Later in the meeting Mr Millard wu, elected president of the union.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26064, 17 March 1950, Page 8
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