“CARRIED TOO FAR”

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 196, 16 May 1930, Page 10

“CARRIED TOO FAR”

ALL BLACKS IN WHITE INDIGNATION GROWING SOME FAMOUS CRITICS By Telegraph.—Press Association. Invercargill, May 15. Local Rugby Union officials, referees, past and present footballers, and sportsmen generally are indignant at the decision of the New Zealand Rugby Union that the New Zealand representative team when it meets the British team is to play in white jerseys. One and all were of the opinion that it was courtesy carried too far, and that if any team should be asked to change its colours it is the visitors, who, it is stated, when they chose dark blue, knew quite well that the New Zealanders had worn all black uniforms ever since they began to take so prominent a place in international Rugby. Among those who have voiced their disapproval are Mr. J. Richardson, vicecaptain of the 1924 All Blacks; Mr.. J. R. Bell, vice-captain of the 1925 Native team to England and France; Mr. J. W. Stead, vice-captain of the 1905 All Blacks, and Mr. A. J. Geddes, Southland and New Zealand selector. WAIRARAPA PROTESTS By Telegraph.—Press Association. Masterton, May 15. The management committee of the Wairarapa Rugby Union has decided to make an emphatic protest against the action of the New. Zealand Rugby Union in changing the All Black uniform to white and to ask all the Rugby unions in New Zealand to support its protest, also to request the New Zealand Rugby Union to reconsider its decision.