THE "ALL BLACKS"

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 117, 20 May 1930, Page 11

THE "ALL BLACKS"

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Now that Mr. James Baxter and his team have bo graciously averted the "disasterV aud the "tragedy" so feared by the' president and Management Committee of the New Zealand Bugby Union: now that the decision that the New Zealand team should play in white can be reversed—a decision so vigorously objected to by various Rugby unions throughout New Zealand and persons of importance- (in the New -Zealand Rugby world) —it is to be hoped that the aforesaid prositlcnt, Management Committee JJugbjj JJnioiis, and

sons of importance" will take tlio opportunity of benefittin'g by the niuchneedecl lesson In manners read to tl»em by our British cousins; that they will cease to take themselves and New Zealand Eugby so seriously; that 'they will refrain from making themselves ridiculous and New Zealand a laughing stock; and that no more will be heard'<>£■ the childish and ill-mannered, protests aiid so forth that have been so -prominent in the newspapers during the last few days. If the naive outburst of Dr. Adams on hearing the glad tidings is correctly reported and can be taken to express the feelings of the Management Committee —an outburst in the strain of a child to whom a cherished toy has unexpectedly been . returned —it is apparently futile to hope for the only proper decision in the circumstances, viz., that the Nmv Zcalanders, as hosts, will insist I that they, uud not their guests, shall ; change tbeir colours. —I am, etc., ! H, M'COBMIOK, ;