A Christchurch "liter commenting tile selection of the All Black team for Australia, says: Tim thre ( . mem-Ihu-s of last Saturday's South Island loam who have m>t been chosen, R. L. I’olierts (West (‘oasli, M. McDonald (Marlboroughi. and G. D. Mason (Bullor). can all he rogarfle t | as unlucky, especially in view of the splendid play of tlu' Sout h Island team as a a hole amt its convincing superiority over the North Island. Roberts is not a brilliant five-eighths, but he is solid and reliable, ami lie impressed a s a man likely to improve with play in good company. Roberts might well have been preferred to Griffiths on the score of youth alone-be is only 21.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1938, Page 5
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