RUGBY FOOTBALL
MAORI TEAM’S TOUR first trial match. Tlio first trial match for the selection of the New Zealand Maori, team, to visit France and Great Britain is to be played at Gisborne on June 19 Iretween a northern team and. a combined East Coast-Poverty Bay-M airoa team. The northern tenm has been chosen y Messrs. G. Dansey, J. Hall and 1. French as follows: , Full-back: Mita Johnston (Horowhenui); three-quarters, A. Falwasser Claranaki), W. Barclay (Hawke’s Bay). L. Grace (Te Aute); five-eighths Love (Wellington), D. Pelham (Auckland); halfback AV. Shortland (Hawkes Bay); wing-forward, S. Gemmell (Hawkes Bay); forwards, O. Ohlsen (North Auckland), T Gemmell (Hawke’s Bay)., W. Rika (North Auckland), A. Swainson (Hawke’s Bay), D. Matone (North Auckland), B. Heke (Rotorua), Reside (Wairarana). Emergencies: Backs, Wi Neera (Wellington), T. Morrison (Bay of Plenty); forward, Solomon (Auckland). ’ The second trial will be the Te Mori Rosebowl match, which is to bo played at Palmerston North on June 23.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 216, 8 June 1926, Page 3
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157RUGBY FOOTBALL Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 216, 8 June 1926, Page 3
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