SANDY’S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, 6 January 1947, Page 4

SANDY’S CORNER

SOUTH AFRICA AND ALL BLACKS We notice that Mr. Allan Qorrie, ot Marton, who has been living in Durban, South Africa, for the last 10 years, says there would probably be no serious reaction in South Africa if the 1948 All Blacks included Maoris. We hope the New Zealand Rugby Union is not led away by that idea, not because we doubt Mr. Gome's view, but because we feel that it would not be fair to any Maori to ask him to go to a country that is so divided in its opinion. Would you, lor instance, accept a wife’s invitation to her house if you were told openly that the husband did not want you to come? Then why ask Maoris to make a trip of a semi-public nature in a country that is divided enough to develop a rather bitter correspondence in the press on the subject? We have more respect for the Maori than to [iut him in tlie position of being an unwanted guest in a country tar from home, even if only halt the people regard him as unwanted. EDRICH WAS OUT! Why argue the point? If the Utt pile says Edrieli was out, he was out, and all the arguing in the world won’t let him go on batting. Therefore, why argue? ZERO HOUR, Ssh! Is everybody in position? Tis zero hour in the war of the whaivee. It is not D-Day—but, significantly enough, Monday, which is Mum'l washing day. Wc pick Mum and her neighbours to have a big sa; in thia war before it is all ove-