PETONE

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12116, 18 April 1925, Page 9

PETONE

A STRONG SIDE. Pe to no have no cause to complain , for from H. E. Nicholls it is learnt that they will be fielding 11 of last seafifteen and that the ex-All lilac', captain will join the ranis later in the season when business is a little less pressing. Tbe three-quarter line is intact, and will be Cornaga. Harold Nicholls and Hawkins, M. Nicholls and Corner will be the five-eighths: Rogers. who played a game or two last season, the half; and Fitzgerald, the wing-forward. In tho scrum there are King, Dove, Albert Parker. _ A Thomas and Haddock. Geoffrey Nieholla has gone to Auckland and will play for Grafton, where another youthful Nicholls is playing, Dickens is unable -o play and Rice and Reid have gone from the club. There are no outsiders joining tin and Warden and Gardner, two juniors, probably will receive promotion to the first fifteen Who will he full-back is as yet unknown.

Altogether the club anticipates a good season. Rugby in Petone is ooming and there are many promising young players, says H. E. Nich oils. All these hoys will not come up this season but some of them cannot he kept down long. Which means that Petone is out to inscribe its namc on the senior championship tropin once again. And it will take serrr stopping. Mr E. Price is the club coach, and the club had no training until last Ikiesday owing to its inability to emt the gymnasium connected with electric light previously.