TENNIS

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1910, 22 May 1928, Page 6

TENNIS

i RUiM'LAU i’LAVER JMKS VOliNO' MAORI Cii A.MRION Tile ;i nuounecincnt of I lie death lust, S;il urday,- of Aliss Rosie Kaiype, ,-it, Llie curly of 20, will*' come ;is ;i shook to tennis enthusiasts throughout the North Island. The late .Miss Karepe was well know'll in the tennis world and first played in (lie Maori tournament at Rotorua, in 1020, and partnered with It. Howell, won. the New Zealand .Maori combined championship .lint yea r. In 1027 she followed up this sueeess hy winning, with Tukere. the well-known N\*an*z;n ll ui tennis player, the Rotorua combined cliainpionsiiip doubles, and at the Raster lonrnalnent in Wanganui Unit year S'.c was in the winning Arawa team which took way, for the first 'itne in sixteen years the ' Maruumru Trophy. Her absence from the tournament at Hastings this year was keenly felt hv her team-mates.

To the parents and relatives ol Hie late Miss Karepe the executive of the .Maori Raw n Tennis Association have forwarded messages of condolence on behalf of tennis players and tlm West Coast Maoris.— AVa iiga.n ui Chronicle.