REP. TRIAL TEAMS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22669, 21 June 1948, Page 3

REP. TRIAL TEAMS

TOWN AND COUNTRY QUEST FOR P.B. SIDE Saturday’s Rugby games on the Gisborne Oval were watched by the Poverty Bay .union selectors, Messrs. F. Solomon and J. Gillespie, in their quest for possible players for the season’s representative engagements and with the immediate assignment of choosing the Town team in the rep trial game with Country this weekend at Patutahi, and by Messrs. A. Trcmewan, L. J. Cooper and J. Pilmer, forming, on 'behalf of the Waikohu, Ngatapa and Motu sub-unions respectively, the committee to select the Country team.

The teams selected follow, clubs or sub-unions being indicated by the respective abbreviations: (O.), Old Boys: (C.), Celtic; <H.) High School Old Boys; (M). Marist: <W), Waikohu; (Mu.). Motu; (N.), Ngatapa. TOWN

Full-back: I. James (O.). Three-quarters: J. Barbour (O.) W„ Edwards (C.), G. Harris (O.). Five-eighths: R. McKinley (C.), R Clay (O.). Half-back: S. Lee (H.).

Back-row forward: K. Bullivant (H.)

Middle-row: B. Birrell (O.), I. Shaw (H), W. Carrington (C.), G. Elliott (O.). Front-row: N: Summersby (O.), T. Donovan (M.), J. Ferguson (H.). Reserves: Backs. J. Richards (O.), R McGregor (O.), E. Carrington (C.); forwards, L. Gibson (H.), G. Shanks (O.). G. King. COUNTRY

Full-back: B. Hollis (W.). Three-quarters: W. Spence (Mu.), j. Graham (W.), J. McMillan (Mu.). Five-cigliths: B. Brown (W.), L. Thompson (Mu.). Half-back: P. Penny (Mu.). Back-row forward: P. Pettit (N.). Middle-row: L. Kimber (W.), K. Cooper (N.K H. Trafford (W.), D. Richardson (Mu.). Front-row: A. Wills (W.), R. Baty (W.), F.. Newton (W.). Reserves: Backs, W. Sherratt (N.), M. Morrell (W.l. P. O'Rourke (Mu.); forwards. S Wi Knngi (W.), C. Neville (Mu.), T. Wilson <N.).