RANDOM REMINDER
IN RAIMENT BRIGHT
There is something magnificently mad about the Scots. One of them, a bonny lad named Hector Macmillan, became a proficient and regular parachute jumper. To celebrate his 700th descent, he made the drop in full national uniform, while playing “The Road To The Isles” on his bagpipes. Regrettably. New Zealanders do not have this panache. Mr J. B. Priestley has told us this already. Not that we needed any reminding.
Eyebrows would have been raised had Colin Meads sung “On The Ball” loudly in the lineouts during his 200th first-class appearance. We simply are not demonstrative. Colleagues of Glenn Turner wouio have been highly surprised, during the tense last morning of the March test which New Zealand won against Australia at Lancaster Park, had they heard him reciting that famous work of Sir Henry Newbolt, between overs.
Isn’t it a pity we don’t have more verve and colour? We don’t have an “Eton Boating Song” for our rowers although, no doubt, the oarsmen themselves have a few
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33625, 29 August 1974, Page 19
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172RANDOM REMINDER Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33625, 29 August 1974, Page 19
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