ALL BLACKS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1924, Page 6

ALL BLACKS

.. .PRESENTATIONS TO PLAYERS. -• (ex rrxEap.Agßl—press,association.) DANNEVIRKE, This Day. ! I At a well-attended public gathering, -L. Paewai was-presented with a travel-, Z ling bag by the Mayor on behalf of I citizens,'and" with a waUet by members *oc the Native * race. Bnmilar presents " v.ere handed to him on behalf of George " Nepia, the other local member of the * Native race chosen to-tour with the 1924 ;„ All Blacks, Who was unable to be pre- ; sent. A telegram was .read from Sir- . • Maui-J^omaTe.. st'a"tihg"that he felt cer- » tain .after.'seeing, them on the field that, * in common with their pakeha brothers, * they T.'ouid uphold the best traditions of - New Zealand Rugby.

; Two popular Wairarnpa footballers, ' OJuentin Donald and lan Harvey, both >• oi whom" have, been selected .to make, the " trip to Europe with tho All Blacks, j -were officially farewelled by a gather- - mg of-some three hundred people at tho r Municipal Hal], Masterton. The func- *: tion was. in tho form of a social and * dance, and during the evening Sir Walter Buchanan presented the guests of ; honour with a travelling rug each as ■ tokens of the esteem in which they were 'I held. The Right Key. Monsignor M*- * Kenna, president of the Wairarapa Rug- *• by Union, and Mr. E. M'Kenzic, se'ere•■'.tary of the union, congratulated the wo „ players on their success in attaining re- .' presentative honours, and referred to -their splendid careers as followers of ' New-Zealand's national game. Both •Messrs. Donald and Harvey suitably replied, and were loudly cheered at the "inclusion of the function. ."