MEDALS FROM PRINCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19720, 20 August 1927, Page 12

MEDALS FROM PRINCE.

- MAORI FOOTBALL TEAM. PRESENTATION TO MEMBERS. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON. Friday. Members of the Maori touring Rugby team, who are now in Wellington to-day, visited Government* House in company with the Prime Minister, Mr. Coates, as Minister of Native Affairs, Mr. Kingi Tahiwi, representative of the Maori Advisory Board, and Mr. E. Wylie, who represented the New Zealand Rugby Union, to receive from the Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergussou, medals presented by the Prince of Wales to members of the Maori team which toured the Old Country and Prance. Medals were received by the following : —A. Crawford, A. C. Falwasser, J. Gemmell, S. Gemmell, H. Kingi, W. Lockwood, E. T. W. Love, D. Pelhain, W. Rika, W. Wilson and M. Wi Neera. The medals to be presented to those members of last year's touring party who were not present were handed to the New Zealand Rugby Union and will be forwarded. The medals were presented by the Prince of Wales to commemorate the tour and in appreciation of the splen did conduct of the members of the team. The Governor-General referred to the pleasure it gave him to present the medals on behalf of the Prince of Wales. He mentioned incidentally that his son at Eton had had the pleasure of showing some members of the touring party over Eton College. The cup presented by the Prince of Wales for competition among the Maori footballers of the Dominion was handed to Mr. S. S. Dean, chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Union, by the Prime Min ister this week at a function at the hatter's ollice.