BIG OFFER TO NEPIA
PLAY IN LEAGUE MATCH SOUGHT. AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. By Telegraph—Press Association. Gisborne, Last Night. When George Nepia, the famous fullback of the 1924 All Blacks, took the field to-day in the Poverty Bay-East Coast-Bay of Plenty trial game to select a combined team for the Napier All Black preliminary the stands buzzed with news of the latest offer made to him to join the League code. Nepia when interviewed to-day .corroborated the statement that a stranger visited his home at Ruatoria and offered him a considerable amount in notes to sign an agreement to pkiy three League matches as a New Zealand representative against Australia. Nepia is a member of the Maori dairying community, and money does not flow like water in the settlement, but he rejected the offer, indicating a preference for finishing his career in the code which gave him early prominence- i
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1935, Page 9
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150BIG OFFER TO NEPIA Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1935, Page 9
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