MAORI ALL BLACK
REFUSAL TO CHANGE CODES NEPIA LOYAL TO RUGBY [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] GISBORNE, Monday When George Nepia took the field to-day in the Poverty Bay-East CoastBay of Plenty Rugby football trial game to select a combined team for the Napier All Black preliminary match there was much discussion regarding the news of the latest offer made to the famous Maori All Black to join the League code. Nepia, when interviewed to-day, corroborated the statement that a stranger visited his home at Ruatoria and offered him a considerable amount in notes to sign an agreement to play three League matehes as a New Zealand representative against Australia. Nepia is a member of the Maori dairying community, and money docs not flow like water in the settlement, but he rejected the offer, indicating his preference for finishing his career in the code which gave him early prominence.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22126, 4 June 1935, Page 11
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