ARMY RUGBY TEAM.

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1943, Page 6

ARMY RUGBY TEAM.

J. Taylor, (Wellington), a former - New Zealand Rugby representative, has been included in the New Zea- ■ - land Army team as full-back for the match with the Air Force at Dunedin next Johns (Taranaki) and Hook (North Auckland) were not available. A lacerated wound to his left arm and an injury to his left elbow were suffered yesterday afternoon by Mr. A. Bate, machinist, 71 Rolleston Street, when he was caught in a machine-at Collier and Beale, Ltd., electrical and1 radio engineers, Ghuznee Street. He was taken to hospital by the Free Ambulance. _ "It sounds like the action of a little -Hitler," said a member of the Waikato sub-provincial executive of the Farmers' Union at a meeting in Hamilton when discussing the difficulties of • obtaining supplies of petrol in emergencies. A delegate had told of a farmer desiring to' take his crippled child to Auckland for an operation. He was told he had to go by train, even •though it had been pointed out that . the child was in pain and a direct trip would ensure quick arrival at the doctor's surgery, and - avoid changing .at Auckland from a train' to a taxi.