A TRAVELLING TEAM.

NZ Truth, Issue 328, 7 October 1911, Page 7

A TRAVELLING TEAM.

Charges and a Challenge.

Travelling teams have to restrain their boisterous spirits when oil the chain m Canterbury, otherwise they hear about it m the newspapers. Canterbury Rugby Union sent a B team to Akaroa to play, thc Peninsula, and a horrified Prohibitionist afterwards forwarded slabs of congealed disgust to a Christchurch paper. During half time, he said, the Christchurch men stood m front of the grand-stand and poured alcohol from a bottle down their throats : then they went forth ami routed Akaroa. In the evening the team bent its elbow with frequency and noisiness m the local pubs, and after 10 p.m. were met, sosselled, by the Akaroa girls returning from the Skating Rink and other places of amusement, although there is no evidence that they molested anybody. Some of 'em were practising horseplay and tumbling about on the grass near the local baths. The astonished chairman of the Rugby Union has written to the local paper, asking thc Prohibitionist to furnish his name and such evidence as may bo investigated, including that of thc Akaroa girls who shared the Prohibitionist's horror at the alleged spectacles.