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ALL BLACKS FOR SOUTH AFRICA AFRIKAANS PAPER'S OUTBURST (Rec. noon) CAPE TOWN, Aug. 27. Commenting on the New Zealand Rugby Union official, Mr J. Prendeville’s, suggestion that the New Zealand 1948 Rugby touring team may include Maoris, the Nationalist Afrikaans newspaper, * Die Transvaaler,’ under the heading ‘ Politics in International Rugby,’ states: “Such'a team would not be acceptable in South .Africa, and the New Zealand authorities should know it.” The paper warns the South African Rugby Board not to allow the game to be misused for an attempt by New Zealand to carry on political propaganda. Other opinions, quoted in the Natal ‘ Mercury,’ included Natal’s captain, Bawdon Coombe: “We played tho Maoris in the Middle 1 East—-they are grand sportsmen, and were just Zealanders to us on the field.” A New Zealand referee, Dr Jack Drummond : “ If they are good enough to fight alongside South Africans they are good enough to play Rugby with.”
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Evening Star, Issue 25882, 28 August 1946, Page 6
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155COLOUR QUESTION Evening Star, Issue 25882, 28 August 1946, Page 6
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