SPRINGBOKS AND MAORIS

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXV, Issue 6, 23 July 1937, Page 3

SPRINGBOKS AND MAORIS

A FEI'i.ING OF GOODWILL. k’l ’TORUA, Last night. Apprnl 'on of the friendly sentiments oi in mbers of the Springbok team to-.. : the Maori race, when they exp -cl a desire to meet the Maori- i pn im d off the playing field, wi, pressed by Mr H. Tai Mitchell n half of the Aravva tribe to-d: ■ When - prospect of a Springbok tour wa. Put announced, the Aravva bibe prepm: d a memorial expressing the hope that a definite statement would be dr clarifying the attitude °f the vi - toward the Maori Pwple in of the color-line prejudiees .fined bv the South African.. Mr Jin. -aid that he could say *fth enini, that the Springboks’ expressinn ~,,„dwill would he redprocat- i*r\ part of New Zealand win -id communities existed, and t;,.! :Or traditional hospitality Of Im Hire would he extended to the vi ... whenever they visited the-e en, 1 1 j- only regret w>s that , -. an in,nit had not been " la <lo mb. r lor. if this had been J°“ p . the Maori people would have had time I" ipa re their football rePfesentativr- to meet such doughty opponents in proper fashion. The b°uth Africans, he thought, would Prefer to meet a properly representa,lve Maori team rather than one “fought together at short notice.