REP. RUGBY.
WAIRARAPA TEAM TO PLAY TARANAKI NEXT SATURDAY’S MATCH. The following team has been selected to represent the Wairarapa in a Rugby match to be played at New Plymouth next Saturday:—Full-back, G. Udy (Carterton); three-quarters, J. Eastwood (Old Boys), S. Brooks (Greytown), W. Peterson (Bed Star); five-eighths, F. Fitzgerald (Carterton), N. Hume (Martinborough); half, T. Denbee (Old Boys); forwards, E. Cross (Bed Star), P. Ward (Martinborough), I. McGregor (Gladstone), C. Grantham (Red Star), G. Laing (Gladstone), J. Nicol (Martinborough), A. Hart (Gladstone), J. Walker (Gladstone). Reserves: Forwards, A. Matherson (Carterton), G. Barr (Old Boys); backs, R. Johnson (Red Star), W. Van Praagh (Old Boys).
The team will leave Carterton at 8 a.m. on Friday and will return on Sunday. Mr. K. Fairbrother will accompany the team as manager. Any player unable to make the trip is asked to ring 192 J, Carterton, or the secretary of the Wairarapa Bugby Union, 106 Carterton at once. Members of the team are asked to find their own black shorts.
SHTRT.D MATCH. PHENOMENAL INTEREST BEING TAKEN. INVERCARGILL, July 27. The phenomenal interest being taken in the Ranfurly Shield match between Otago and Southland at Dunedin on Saturday was shown when 170 stand seats allotted to Southland were literally sold before the plan was opened this morning. One man waited from 11 o’clock last night and he was joined by others, including women, after midnight. It was cold and foggy and they must have found it difficult to keep warm. Seats or no seats Southlanders are determined to take Dunedin by storm on Saturday. Already about 2000 seats have been booked on special trains and it is believed that 4000 or 5000 will go north by road, rail or air. One party is reported to be making the journey on bicycles. It was learned to-day that arrangements made by the Railways Department for the transportation of crowds on all lines in Otago and Southland represent probably the biggest undertaking of the kind in the history of the railways.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 28 July 1936, Page 5
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