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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 176, 29 July 1935, Page 6

Mr. Martin Smith, of Wellington, a member of the Universities’ Rugby Council, was in Palmerston North or. Saturday in the capacity of selector of a New Zealand University representative team which will in all probability bo going to Japan in January next. Mr. Smith is one-time captain of Victoria College fifteen and an cx-Wcllington representative. Ho watched Massey College players in action on Saturday. Mopokes are creatures of the night; but the one seen in Bledisloe park on Saturday had apparently forgotten to go to bed. Ho was perched high up on a branch with his light brown feathers fluffed out and he refused to be dislodged by several stones thrown at random, one of wihch parted the feathers of his short tail, but ho merely sat stolidly absorbing the warm rays of the afternoon sun,- thinking, perhaps, that light and warmth were preferable to darkness and cold.