N.Z. FREE LANCE

Opunake Times, 23 July 1937, Page 3

N.Z. FREE LANCE

RUGBY FINALISTS Tlio interest of sport lovers throughout New Zealand was focussed last week on the trials held in Wellington by the New Zealand Rugby Union to assist the selection of the team to play the Springboks in the first Test. This week's issue of the New Zealand Free Lance contains an excellent series of photographs of play i< the trials,' with special regard for players likely to be among the All Blacks who will be in action before long. Other Rugby pictures, Mr N. A. McKenzie's comment on the form of players in the running for I lie New Zealand team, and another contributor's comment on the final trial, together with other 'u'j.'by articles, make the issue specially attractive to followers of football. Another notable feature of the sports pages of the popular weekly is the notes by several contributors on hurdlers and steeplechasers who will he engaged at the Grand National meeting next month, and some of whom will be engaged in hunt club meetings before'that fixture. Tie- <reneral letterpress and the social pages of the New Zealand Free Lance are full of newsy articles and paragraphs and are profusely illustrated.