SANDY'S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, 30 May 1949, Page 4

SANDY'S CORNER

SORRY, NAPIER. BUT WE’RE GLAD!

We apologise to Napier this mornjn“ We reported on Saturday that the' Hawke's Bay Museum and Art Gallery had been totally destroyed by tire That report was greatly exaggerated. A building in the same block was destroyed, and the museum and gallery still proudy stand. Though we are sorry that a lie got started and had a week-end in which to travel, we are glad that the report is' untrue. Napier still has its museum and its gallery! TOLGHJudging by the report of the Rugby match, New Zealand Maoris v New South Wales, published this morning, it is as well that the Maoris did not go to South Africa! Apparently there were "incidents” in Saturday's match which have raised the ire of the Australian Press. It is natural for such comment to be made, because th® Australian type of Rugby and that played by New Zealand - contrast rather sharply Australia goes in for the more attractive type of game, bright open passing, while New Zealand, though it encourages that type too, also builds up mainly on forwards. We recall an Australian team playing in Wanganui complaining of the rough tactics of the Wanganui team, and that at a time when most of us in Wanganui were wondering when the local boys were going to get “tough enough" to lay out a match with some of the South Island traditional packs of forwards. Whatever may be just .n criticism of the match played in Sydney on Saturday the reports will boost the test. We in Wanganui could, perhaps, charter a plane and go over and “see the war.”