Minister’s Rugby
The talk will probably turn to Rugby if 15 former prisoners of war meet the British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr Mulley), who will visit Christchurch today.
Mr Mulley, apparently, was unwise enough to referee a Rugby competition in the prison camp, Stalag 383.
When Mr Mulley, then a lance-sergeant in the Worcestershire Regiment was in Stalag 383 about 500 New Zealanders were in the camp.
Mr J. G. M. Lardner, now of Christchurch, who was a lance - corporal in the Queen’s Own Royal West Kents, recalls some of Mr Mulley’s Rugby decisions.
“As a Rugby referee Mr Mulley was mostly fair. I was just a mug player. The New Zealanders dominated the Rugby and other teams often had to draft players into the squads,” he said. “My game was soccer, but even so I feel those New Zealand teams were allowed to get away with fiddles. Some of Mulley’s decisions were definitely suspect.” Among those who will meet Mr Mulley at Christchurch Airport is Mr C. J. Kite, district officer for the Department of Internal Affairs. Mr Kite spent almost four years as a prisoner of war in the Lamsdorf camp in Germany.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32072, 21 August 1969, Page 1
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