PETONE RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 82, 16 October 1928, Page 5

PETONE RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB

' The Petoue Rugby ■ Football Club held its annual reunion in the form of a smoke concert at Petonc-on Saturday night. The opportunity was taken to extend a welcome to the club's.All Black, Mark Nicliolls. There was an attendance of approximately 250. Among the guests were Mr. i. M. Wilford M.P. (who acted as chairman), Messrs. S. S. Dean, W. F. Hornig, H. Leith, T. A. Fletcher, all of the New Zealand Rugby Union, Messrs. J. Prendeville, H. Morgan, and Major King, of the Wellington . Rugby Union, and Mr. D. M'Kenzie (New Zealand Referees' Association). There were also present the Mayor of Petone (Mr. D. M'Kenzie) and several of the leading citizens, as well as representatives from all the senior football clubs in Wellington and kindred sports bodies. In proposing the toast of the Petone Rugby Football Club, Mr. T. A. Fletcher referred to the club's record of the past season. Although the senior and junior teams had not reached the top of the ladder, the intermediate, third, and fourth grade teams had won the championships in theii1 divisions, while the fifths, sixths, and sevenths had been ruuners-up in their grades, each being only one point behind the winners. The Petone Club had also won the club championship Cup. The remarkable success in the lower grades, said Mi-. Fletcher, augured well for the future of the club. Tropheis "presented by .friends of the club for individual performances were presented to the winners by Mr. Wilford, who also handed the championship Cups to the coaches of the winning teams. ' , ■ The toast list was as ■ follows:—.Flic King, proposed by the chairman; the Wellington Rugby Football Union and the New Zealand Referees' Association,- proposed by Mr. E. Price, and responded to by Messrs.'J. Prendeville and D. M'Kenzie; the Petone Rugby Football Club, proposed by Mr. T. A. Fletcher, and responded to by Mr. J. W. M'Ewan: Mr. Mark Nicholls, proposed by Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P., and responded to by Mr. Nicholls; the New Zealand Rugby Football Union and the Wellington Referees' Association, proposed by Mr. M. F. Nicholls, and responded to by" Messrs. W- F. Hornig, S. S. Dean, and H. Leith. j The musical part of the programme was provided by Messrs. L. Price, J. Mooney, F. Reid, N. Puketapu, D. Love, J. Warren, and others.