MONEY FOR HIS FARM
WHY NEPIA CHANGED TO LEAGUE. OTHER MAORIS JOIN SAME CLUB. By Telegraph—Press Association. Gisborne, Last Night. Mr. George Nepia, famous Maori All Black, will leave Gisborne to-morrow for Auckland, where he will join the Akaroa for England under a two years’ engagement with the newly-formed London Rugby League Club, StreathamMitcham. He will receive a signing on fee of £5OO, expenses both ways and a wage of at least £3 10s a week. Mr. Nepia emphasised that he had no complaint against the Rugby Union and found the change over very hard as he had always regarded it as sacred. He realised he owed his present position to the Union code. However, he required finance for his farm and this seemed the only possible source. •“I do not think my Rugby Union friends will begrudge me deciding to put my last years of football to. the best advantage for my own benefit,” he addcd. Playing for the same club will be Charlie Smilft (Wairoa), McDonald (Marlborough) and George Harrison (Taranaki), also members. of the last Maori team to tour Australia.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1935, Page 4
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