THE MAORI MATCH.
UNION’S DECISIONS
WELLINGTON, Sept. 16. It was announced at a meeting ol the New Zealand Rugby Union to-night that the Australian team would be unable to play an extra match in New Zealand as had been suggested in Auckland because of players’ arrangements.
The announcement that the Springboks would leave Capetown on May 14, 1907, to tour Australia and New Zealand was also made at the meeting. Mr J. A. Wilson, of Wellington, was appointed referee of the AustraliaCanterbury match on Saturday, and Mr N. Gilchrist, of Napier, of the Australia-New Zealand Maoris match at Palmerston North next Wednesday. Mr Ivingi Tahiwi, secretary to the Maori Advisory Hoard,, was appointed manager of the Maori team. The Hawke’s Bay Rugby Union suggested that a match, Hawke’s Bay Maoris and Maoris of some other provinces should be arranged as a curtainraiser to the match between New Zealand Maoris and Australia. It was decided to advise that the union considered it too late to arrange such a game.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 248, 17 September 1936, Page 14
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168THE MAORI MATCH. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 248, 17 September 1936, Page 14
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