MATAKAOA RUGBY
WIN FOR APANUI HICKS BAY LEADS COMPETITION (Herald Correspondent.) Last Thursday the Matnkaoa Football .Sub-union representatives met representatives of the Aplimti sub-union at Raukokore, ami after a good match the latter won by 12 points to 11. Next Saturday a match will he played at Tikitiki between a team selected from the Malakaoa and Apanui sub-unions and a team from sub-unions south of Matnkaoa.. The match will be a trial one to help the selectors to pick a team to meet Taranaki at Waitara for the I’ainui-Maniapoto Cup next month. The position of the four clubs in the competitions is as follows: Hicks Bay 6. City 3, Toknrarangi 2. Wanderers 1.
who played a good game also, having a handicap of 10. With Mr. Joyce. Mr. Campbell played a match with Mr. Hajime Kawasaki, amateur champion of Japan from 1925 lo 1927, and who plays off three. .Mr. Kawasaki and his son played two matches against, the Australians, losing Hie first and drawing the second. They were so enthusiastic that, they travelled 450 miles, to Kobe to h ave another game with the two Australians.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19025, 27 May 1936, Page 7
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