MAORIS IN ALL BLACKS

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29801, 18 April 1962, Page 16

MAORIS IN ALL BLACKS

Clarification Sought Clarification of the ekgioility of Maori players for trie next Rugby tour of South Africa will be sought from the New Zealand Rugby Union by the Canterbury Association for Racial Equality. “Conflicting statements' on this question by Messrs C S. Hogg and T. C Morrison were disewsed in detail at the association's meeting last evening

Although Mr Hogg, retiring president of the New Zealand Ruzby Union had said that Maoris would be Included in future Rugby teams for South Africa. Mr Morrison had said that the composition of such a team had yet to be considered by the union's council, it was said. .Mr K Duffield said that since Mr Hogg was retiring from his position with the Rugby union, he had doubts that his statement expressed the union's real policy. Mr N. Gray, who described himself as being "of Maori extraction.” mid that Mr by his statements in 1960, had “dragged New Zealand’s name through the mud.” He moved that ths association send him a telegram “regretting he was not retiring from New Zealand to South Africa, where he could see what he had championed in 1960—apartheid ia sport;’’ but his motion w«s rejected.