Young footballer ’disgusted'
A player has withdrawn from the Canterbury under-18 rugby team because of remarks by Mr B. J. Drake, a member of the management committee of the Canterbury Rugby Football Union. Mr Drake said at a meeting of the committee two weeks ago that “the sooner the black people of Africa go back to the jungle the better, as far as 1 am concerned.’’ The committee was discussing the probability of a visit to South Africa next year of a Maori rugby team. J. P. Small, who plays for the Marist Rugby Club, says in a letter to the union: “I have recently been selected to play for
The Canterbury- under-18 side, hut after much thought have decided to withdraw to show my disapproval of the remarks made recently by Mr Drake. “I am deeply shocked and disgusted to think that a supposedly educated man such as he. could be so narrow-minded. “I congratulate Mr J. G. Mullins on his enlightened viewpoint, and am awaiting the comments of other C.R.F.U. representatives. I can only assume that the others agree with Mr Drake."
Small says In his letter that he refuses to play “as a representative of a racist rugby union."
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