GREATLY HEARTENED.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13090, 25 October 1935, Page 2

GREATLY HEARTENED.

HOPEFUL OF FURTHER IMPROVEMENT. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—CopvrigliL. LONDON, ‘October 23. The Now Zealanders are greatly heartened by their win aga.insV Llanelly. They believe that at last they have found real form. Mr Meredith is hopeful of further improvement. Page will not be available for a fortnight but he and Dalton are 3n light training. McLean, Pepper, Best and Wynyard will piobably be available ici Saturday’s game. Oliver. Page, Corner and Man r Chester arc spending three days at Lord Blcdisloe’s home and will rejoin the team on the 30th October. Lord Bledisloe is most interested in the tourists and arranged shooting, tennis and drives for h.ig guests. The team attended a. greyhound meeting at Cardiff and all backed the last dog ‘‘Lucky Solomon/’

NO ROUGH PLAY. CARDIFF, October 23. The New Zealanders depreciate reports of rough play by the forwards on both* sides in the Llanelly match appreciating the hard keen, game. Dr. Rosy u Jones, a Llanelly official when asked by the Press Agency if it was true there wore scenes at Llanelly said there had been nothing of the kind. All that was seen was a magnificently thrilling game. He protested against the criticisms oi the present tourists as not being equal to the previous teams, declaring it was not. deterioration in the New Zealanders, but improvement in the British Rugby since 1924 which accounted, for more equality.