MATCH AT UPOKONGARO

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 177, 29 July 1932, Page 4

MATCH AT UPOKONGARO

UNEMPLOYED TO PLAY MAORI v. PAKEHA MIDGETS There is to bo a special match at Upokongaro to morrow, when a team chosen from the unemployed will try conclusions with a local side. A charge of sixpence is to be made at the gate and the proceeds are to help swell a fund that is being used to alleviate distress. As a special attraction a seveu-a-sido match is to be played between a Maori and a pakeha team at half-time during the other game. It is thought that the youngsters will give a lino display. Teams have been chosen for the big match as follow: Upokongaro Upokongaro team to play tho unem ployed at Upokongaro at 2.30 p.m.— D. Potae, D. Murray, E. Farley, D. Williams, P. Grant, W. Mathews, W. Hurash, J. Joseph, C. Priest, N. Kurth. P. Nagel, J. Albert., G. Anderson, P. Biggar, F. Stevenson, A. Walker and Lett. Relief Workers Relief workers to play Upokongaro—Bildcrbeck, Hill, Hill, Lett, Mosen, Leo, Bildcrbeck, Bing, Kurth, Davidson, Phillips, Mortensen, Churton, Wiwi, Hunt, Aston, Leach and Tuck. (Bus loaves the H.B. corner at 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY INDEPENDENCE SOUTHERN WRITER'S VIEW A contributor to a southern paper gives his views about, the present Rugby situation in the following strain: “ What New Zealand lack is a strong, sturdy, and self-reliant spirit. Not only iu Rugby football, but in politics, art, trade, religion, and national defence. Have wo, in any of these matters, a soul to call our own, or are wo fated to follow like kids at the skirts of Mother England? Tho subject, how ever, is football, and half-time edicts and replacement laws. The management committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union .discussed the subject, and. while a number of delegates advocated a bold and independent attitude, others.

including the chairman (Mr. Dean), anpea red obsessed by fears. 'Suppose we are told our affiliation must ceasef’ anid one. •We should wait to see wh’t Australia docs, said another. All this >s araamng. Is there a genuine ex-AH Black m our crowd of Hugbv adminislf so. let him put b“ d «<> w n and charge into the middle of this flabby phantasy of childish fear, sweeping it aside in one glorious, scattering rush, and making an end nt cringing servility for all time. Heaven* alive, New Zealand has grown up! Lot us tell England, politely but firmly, that, knowing our own business and our own country best, we intend to stan<l by tho replacement rule, that, our team* will be allowed to leave the field at half-time, and that the up-to-date kick-zng-into-touch law is going to be revived. And if, in retaliation. England promulgates an expulsion order. woll t good on her pluck. She may look down her nose at us and rank us as outsiders; but she won’t be able to say we have no of our own. Thi lion can growl: must its cubs eraw] intt corners like whipped curs?’’