Jimmy Mill was one of the three Maori players in the 1924 All Blacks, the others being George Nepia and Lui Paewai, uncle of ‘Doc’ Paewai. ‘Doc’ has been acclaimed as the greatest half-back New Zealand has ever produced not to wear an All Black jersey! Yes, Dr M. N. Paewai is so known — a player who deserved to be first choice as New Zealand half-back, but who missed out all along the way. A grand little sportsman, too. But a little about the legendary George Nepia. George Nepia, the world's greatest full-back, in the opinion of Englishmen and New Zealanders, was originally a five-eighth, and it was a stroke of genius on the part of Tom Parata and Norman McKenzie that saw Nepia transferred to the full-back position in one of the trial matches in 1924. Thus came about, almost accidentally, the start of an amazing career. George Nepia, at 19 years, played in all of the 30 matches on the 1924–25 tour, scoring 70 points. New Zealand took only one full-back on that tour—a full-back who had not played more than the odd game in that position, but long after the tour, Denzil Batchelor, an English journalist, was moved to write a grand story about that 19-year-old player in his book, Days Without Sunset. I'd like every young New Zealander — Maori and pakeha alike—to read that chapter. It's a sporting classic. Might I quote just a few sentences? The chapter is titled ‘The Unfading Fern’. ‘… Alone among the whole side he (Nepia) played in all thirty. If Mark Nicholls failed, there were others to improvise fresh attacks—if Nepia failed, the castle was taken, the side was beaten. ‘How had the boy Nepia the finely tempered nerves to stand the strain of appearing as a target for the day in match after match; of beating off, single-handed, the ravening packs and the three-quarter lines in full cry, with his own single pair of whipcord arms? He was between short and tall, and his thighs were like young trunks. His head was fit for the prow of a Viking Longship, with its passionless, sculped bronze features and the plume of blue-black hair. ‘Behind the game he slunk from side to side like a panther on the prowl; but not like the panther behind bars—like a lord of the jungle GREYS IS GREAT