RUGBY SKELETONS PUT BACK TO SLEEP
WANGANUI BEATS MANAWATU FIRST WIN ON PALMERSTON GROUND FOR MORE THAN 12 YEARS SCHOOLS' MATCH DRAWN; WAINUI BEATEN Before nn attendance of more than 6000, the Wanganui representative Rugby team beat Manawatu at Palmerston North on .Saturday by 14 points (three tries, one converted and a penalty goal), to 11 (one. try converted and two penalty goals). The win uas thoroughly deserved, the Wanganui team playing fast, attractive football. In fact, the margin of points between the learns could well have been as much ns eight more in. Wanganui’s favour. It was the best display the representatives have given for ten years. At Wanganui, Ihe first fifteens of the Wanganui Collegiate School and the Technical College drew, eight points all. A team from Wainui-a-Rua, the up-river portion of the Wanganui Rugby Union’s district, was beaten by IS to nil by a fifteen representative of the city clubs. Marlborough beat Wairarapa, in the. Wairarapa. by 21 to three.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 142, 19 June 1939, Page 4
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163RUGBY SKELETONS PUT BACK TO SLEEP Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 142, 19 June 1939, Page 4
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