RUGBY VETERANS
GREETINGS FROM NEW ZEALAND MAORIS’ TOUR OF BRITAIN RECALLED Rec 1 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 31. The Yorkshire Evening Post says that before Pat Smith, the New Zealand Rugby League captain, left to tour England he met Riki Taiaioa, the 80-year-old paramount chief in the South Island, who has a station lour miles from Smith’s "home. The chief gave Smith a Maori good-luck note addressed to any surviving member of the English Rugby team which m England in 1888 met the Maori side of which the chief is the sole survicor. Atra dinner which followed the New Zealanders game with Hunslet, Joe Lewthwaite, the Hunslet president, told the story of the 1888 match, and Smith passed on Taiaroa’s goodwill message. Lewthwaite, who had been a Hunslet player and official for 60 years, hopes to see Taiaroa again. He wanted to tour Australia and New Zealand with the 1946 Rugby League team, but could not get a passage. He hopes to book his own berth for the 1950 tour.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26607, 1 November 1947, Page 7
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