Mr Jack Alfred Bidois Mr Jack Alfred Bidois, a well-known member of the Te Puna Maori community, Tauranga, who was also prominent in rugby, died last November. Mr Bidois was born at Te Puna in 1909, and educated at the Te Puna School. He was a very prominent horseman in his youth, and won several trophies at picnic race meetings. He excelled as a horsebreaker. Mr Bidois was outstanding as a rugby player from the age of about fifteen, representing Tauranga as a junior and then as a senior. In the early 1930's he transferred to Rotorua and while there he represented Rotorua. He retired after 18 years as a player but continued as an administrator in the role of coach and selector for his home team, Te Puna. Last year he was elected as a member of the Tauranga Rugby Sub-Unions management committee and served also as the Sub-Union's junior representative selector.

Mr Matiu Edwards The death occurred at Wairoa last November of Mr Matiu Edwards. He was 68 years of age. Mr Edwards was a prominent Maori rugby player in Hawkes Bay in the early 1920s. He was a member of the pioneer Maori Battalion team which played in New Zealand in 1919 and also played fullback for the New Zealand Maori team which toured Australia and New Zealand in 1922.

Mr Lou Davis Mr Louis Henry Davis, well known throughout Northland and much of New Zealand as a champion of sport for youth and for the well-being of the Maori race, died at his home at Whakapara aged 78. Born at Taumarere, near Kawakawa, Mr Davis spent practically his whole life in Northland. Mr Davis took up farming at Whakapara when he settled back permanently in the Whangarei district in 1909. From 1912 he was a member of the Whangarei Rugby Union and he was connected with the North Auckland Rugby Union since its formation nearly 40 years ago. Mr Davis played rugby for Whakapara in the early days and in 1912 organised the first Northland Maori rugby team. After initiating the first Maori-Pakeha match in the north, Mr Davis became a Tai Tokerau selector in 1929, and he chose the team which lifted the Prince of Wales Cup that year. In recent years he was a member of the Hukerenui club and has served on the NARU Maori Advisory Board as well as the WRU management committee. Apart from rugby Mr Davis's main sporting interests were tennis and table tennis.

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