MAORI RUGBY TEAM
VISIT TO ETON COLLEGE LONDON, November 16. The Maori team visited Windsor Castle and later saw Eton’s famous wall- game. The game, proved so mysterious, with its “bullies,” getters,” “ calxes,” and other technicalities, that the Maoris halfway through deserted their places and went to watch two junior house teams playing Rugby, Here the thirty-five Maoris divided into two bodies and cheered the respective sides to victory. Earlier Dean Bailey told the Maoris the story of the Garter in the chapel of the Order, and also showed them the room where Shakespeare’s ‘ Merry Wi\*Bs of Windsor ’ was first played before Queen Elizabeth.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19409, 18 November 1926, Page 15
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