SHOW ATTRACTIONS
Visitors to the -Show to-morrow should .not fail to see Mounn Paratene’s band of Maori wrestlers, who will be prepared to meet all local contestants in 6-minute rounds. A gold trophy is offered for each local man who can stand up- to these Maori wrestlers for three minutes. Build, “the terrible Maori,” who weighs 15 stone and is only 17 years old, will be a contestant. He has wrestled 22 .amateur matches to date without defeat. He would like very much to meet Kupita,. Smith, or liorne, local champions. “Tiger” -Foote, who wrestled a draw .with Taylor recently, iiopes to .meet Ruilii at the (Show. Calliglmn and ilvvuiti, the lightweights, will wrestle school-boys ami any others of their weight.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17608, 26 October 1931, Page 5
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121SHOW ATTRACTIONS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17608, 26 October 1931, Page 5
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