MOOLOO CLUB MAY DISBAND

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27564, 22 January 1955, Page 2

MOOLOO CLUB MAY DISBAND

FIRMS TRYING TO USE SIGN

COMMITTEE OBJECTS TO COMMERCIALISM

•The Press" Special service HAMLTON, January 21. The Mooloo Club in Hamilton, which organised the Christchurch invasion for the Canterbury-Waikato match last year, the processions for other Ranfurly Shied matches and many other attractions in the Waikato, may be disbanded. The club was started by a group of enthusiasts led by Mr H. E. Calcott, who is a city councillor and president of the Chamber of Commerce in Hamilton. The motto was “Mooloo for sport and not for profit.” Mr Calcott said that, because certain commercial firms were trying to use the Mooloo sign for profit, the executive of the club would decide within the next few days whether or not to wind up its activities. Those who had done so much for the club had strictly refrained from using the word Mooloo or her figure in any commercial undertaking. “We feel we have a trust placed in the club to see that no butside firm commercialises Mooloo fti any shape or‘form,” he said. The Mayor of Hamilton (Mr R. Braithwaite) said that the Mooloo Club should be preserved at all costs. In the southern part of the North Island he had found that Mooloo had almost eclipsed the word Hamilton or Waikato. The club had drawn the city and the whole of the Waikato together in a way that had, not been experienced before. ■*