Selectors Named To Choose Maori Rugoy Team For Australia
WELLINGTON, Tuesday, (PA).— The Maori Advisory Board, at a meeting in Wliington at which the chairman of the NZRFU Council, Mr. A. SI. C. Belcher, was present, decided to re-appoint lhe surviving members of the selection committee which chose the Maori Rugby team for Fiji last year. They will have the responsibility of selecting the team which is to leave on May 16 lor Australia. Tile selectors last year were Messrs W. T. Parata (Otago), whose death occurred later in the year, T. Irene a (Auckland), W. P. Barclay (North Auckland), and P. Whaipooti (Last Coast) with Mr. A. Takaratjgi (V. ar.ganui) co-opted. Mr. D. Prosser (Wellington) has been co-opted th: year together witli Mr. Takarangi, but it has not been possible to appoint a South Island successor to the late Mr. Parata.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 29 April 1949, Page 4
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