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.MR GEDDES CLAIMS MTSREPRE,7 SENTATION (United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY, 3rd September. , Tlie secretary of the Rugby Union received a cable from Mr Geddes,manager of the New Zealand team, stating: ‘‘Regret gross misrepresentation of my remarks regarding referees. No slight intended. Nobody has anything but praise for the whole tour.” NO CALL FOR CRITICISM PORTER REITERATES HIS VIEWS (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. . “I say definitely that there was absolutely no call for it;” said the All Black, C. G. Porter, who arrived by the Mak.ura from Sydney yesterday, referring to complaints of some members of the Ail Blacks’ party about Australian referees. Porter said that when the team won squealing /it was bad enough, hut when it lost it was worse. While Irving may have been too technical ii\ his ladings ho was the same, to both teams.' “I did not see any partiality on either side,” he said, “and congratulated the referee afterward on his fine display.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 4 September 1934, Page 5
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165NO SLIGHT ON REFEREE^ Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 4 September 1934, Page 5
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