The Hawera Star. MONDAY, MAY 19, 1930. THE ALL BLACK JERSEY.

Hawera Star, Volume L, 19 May 1930, Page 6

The Hawera Star.

MONDAY, MAY 19, 1930. THE ALL BLACK JERSEY.

Delivered every evening by 6 o’clock in Hawera. Hanaia, Kaupokonui, Otakeho, Oeo, Pihama, Opunake, Normanby, Okaiawa Eltham, Ngaere, Mangatoki, Kaponga, Awatuna, Te Kiri, Mahoe, Lowgarth, Manutahi, Kakaramea, Alton, Hurleyville Patea, Whenuakura, Waverley. Mokoia, Whakamara, Ohangai, Meremere, Fraser Road, and Ararata.

The “colour question” raised in connection with the forthcoming Rugby tests has been happily settled and New Zealand football enthusiasts can now attend the Tests with nothing to mar their enjoyment of the. play. With memories of the wonderful reception given to our players in England during the 1924 All Blacks’ tour, it is not to be wondered that everywhere in the Dominion to-day there is a determination to give the British team as good a time as lies within our power. There has been evidenced on every hand a desire that the British visitors should carry away with them a satisfactory impression of the sportsmanship of New Zealand players and spectators, and it did seem a matter for regret that the “colour” question should be allowed to agitato the public mind on the eve of the matches. However, the graceful thing has been done by the team and its manager, who have appreciated Now Zealand’s affection for the “all black” colours which the players of this Dominion have made famous. The Rugby visitors at present in the country are in no way to blame for the position which arose. The colour scheme of the British team was devised in England by the all-powerful officials there who, in choosing dark jerseys when the whole of the colours of the rainbow were open to selection —for there was no precedent to follow, apparently, for a mixed team representative of Great Britain and Ireland —displayed once more that rather lordly attitude towards Rugby in tlic overseas portions of the Empire which has for years been a stumbling block in the path of negotiations for Dominion representation in the inner councils of the code. It is to be hoped that the gracious reasonableness displayed by the visitors themselves, and the knowledge of us they will acquire during their visit, will have a good effect upon the controllers of the game at Home upon the team’s return.