FOOTBALL
AMUSING SIDELIGHTS
Rome amusing; sidelight? wore hiTown oa ciyib football at Po ; irua a!; ,-t meeting of the W-i'llingt.on Rugby Union. One correspondent wrote to th e effect that he would not referee in a game at the village under any circumstances, as recently he was frightened off the ground by two Maori women"' and had to "go for his life." A member of the un'on recalled that in a cei'tain match at Porirua on c of the players took advantage of a fight that was in progress on the ground, and stealing away unobserved scored a , try. Another letter received by the union complained of the state of the Por:rua playing ground, which was likened by the correspondent to a "slaughted yard. ,. The union decided to instruct the Porirua Club to put its field in decent order.
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Northern Advocate, 5 June 1920, Page 4
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139FOOTBALL Northern Advocate, 5 June 1920, Page 4
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