FOOTBALL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 2 July 1921, Page 5

FOOTBALL.

HAWERA TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL v. PATEA ROVERS.

An interesting match was played on the Patea Domain on Wednesday between .teams representing the Hawera (Technical High Schol and the Patea 1 Rovers XV. The visitors (says the Patea-Press) were a fine sturdy lot of boys, and played with rare combination and dash, with the result that they defeated the local boys, by 23 points to nil. The" game was played in "the best. of spirit—there belong an entire absence of rough play, both teams playing hard, but clean games. A feature of the play was the silence of the players, scarcely a word being heard from'first to last, ; a fact .that was due in no small degree to Mr. JF. McKenna, who refereed and T insisted on players playing the game in the letter and spirit. At the conclusion of the game the players adjourned to Mr. Graham's tea rooms, where, the visitors were enter- - tamed by the local boys to a bountlfixl i e't v f nTl^ -c meal Mr • Gray» °« - ■ behalf of the vuitmg team, thanked* the local men for their hospitality and w for the excellent game they had given >" them. He .stated the match was the cleanest and bestr exhibition of football that Aad been given them this season and he hoped the return match would V be played at Hawera before lon<r ;,- Mr. Harold, on behalf of the local teaih, congratulated the visitors on P^teaV^m dnd ho Ped they would visit Mr. E: Nansett also thanked th©-^ visitor^ for the gooa game they had > given thenrand hoped the return match ' w<r?i ■ a more even nature. : * Cheers were then given by the visitors for the local team and for the caterer; Mr. Graham, the local boys responding with cheers for the visitors