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A lot of post-mortems are going to be held and a lot of opinions put into print before the Rugby season reopens and probFOOTBALL ably_ some worthSEASON while changes will be introduced.
Nobody who is a true New Zealander can doubt that the Rugby game in its greater moments exemplifies and expresses whatever there is of original culture developed in this rugged country. Cricket, tennis and all the rest are. of course, merely stop-gaps, time-fillers, until we can once again join in the ceremonies of our national religion; League and Soccer merely errant whims.
May I suggest a remedy to put the great old game back in the grand place it held in former years? In the past, in a misguided attempt to conserve our energies and perhaps give the other sports a sporting chance we have cut our Rugby season far too short. Any player will ,tell you that the season now ends just as players are beginning to feel the benefit of physical fitness and team combination.
I therefore make a plea for the extension of the season by a month at the beginning and a month at the end. The necessity for this in relation to overseas tours is too obvious to require argument.—“EX-VARSITY.” PERSONAI
Mr David Edwin Parton. a member of the New Zealand Cricket Council for 20 years, has died, aged 72. Mr Parton lived at Masterton and Christchurch before he retired to Auckland. A telegraph engineer, he erected the wireless station at Fiji, one of the first in the Pacific. When the Masterton telephone exchange was converted in 1918 to become the first fully-automatie exchange in the world, Mr Parton was telegraph engineer in charge of the Wairarapa. Hawke’s Bay's first woman solicitor, Miss Audrey Langley, of Napier, was admitted by Mr Justice Hutchison in the Supreme Court this morning, on the motion of her father, Mr V. J. Langley. Miss Langley, who was dux of Napier Girls’ High School in 1944. is at present completing her Bachelor of Laws degree at Victoria University. Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, a former Third Sea Lord, has died at the age of 77. He joined H.M.S. Britannia in 1835, and in 1899 and 1900 served in the defence of Ladysmith, being specially promoted for these sendees to the rank of commander in 1901
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Northern Advocate, 28 October 1949, Page 4
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