FOOTBALL.
OLD TIMER’S REGRETS.
LONDON, Wednesday
“It has always been a matter of regret tha. the Rugby code was not universally adopted throughout the Dominionsl /’ says Mr. Alfred St. George Hamersley, K.C., M.P., writing in the ‘ ‘ Evening News. ’ ’ Mr Hamerslcv participated in the first Anglo-Scottish international match, and was the originator of Rugby in Canterbury and Vancouver. He says: “All who have seen the ‘All Blacks’ realise Australia's and Canada's loss in not adopting Rugby.” He recalls the first New Zealand match, played at Ashburton in 1574, between North and South Canterbury, the players travelling fifty miles, fording rivers in coaches, and returning that evening. —■ ‘ Sun. ’ ’
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 April 1927, Page 6
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