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SUGGESTED MAORI BAN
DENIAL BY MR. DEAN
REGRET CONCERNING HUMOUR
The impression has been create 1 that members of the Maori race will not, be selected to play in I'he provincial or international games io be played against the SoniJi African Rugby team which will visit New Zealand next year.
Mr. S. S. Dean, chairman of the Xew Zealand Rugby Union's management committee, states that this i< nor the position. The host tennis representative of the playing strength of the unions and of New Zealand will ho selected to play against the visitors, and will be picked from both pakoha and Maori players.
"There never has been any suggestion," ho says, "that our visitors would not play against the Maoris, and it is to be regretted that sncli rumours have been given utteranci to."
The question of whether the South Africans will play a Maori XV or a team from, the combined universitieof New Zealand is a policy matter of the Xew Zealand Rugby Union, and has not, so far, been considered by the com mil tee.
It is hoped to draw up a draft of the iiitinerary of the grimes to be played in both Australia and Xew Zealand at an early date. The commit tee is only waiting definite confirmation of the sailing dales from and to South Africa.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19045, 19 June 1936, Page 7
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