EARLY FOOTBALL
FOUNDATION OF THE GAME! AT MATATA The year 1886 saw the introduction of Rugby football into the Matata district, when three members of the Ngati Raingitihi tribe, Raimona Heretaunga, Hemana Te Pokiha and Hataraka Hone, who had attended St. Stephen's College, returned Avitli the, first football, With the very able. assistance of Mr F. J. Burt, they taught the Maoris the game and a series of matches arranged on the arrival of the famous Warbrick brothers laid the foundations of the game in the Matata and surrounding districts. , '
Mr Hataraka Hone died last year and an obituary notice elscAvhere in this issue records the death of Mr Haimona Heretaunga. Mr Hemana Te Pokiha liA*es at Makelu.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 250, 16 December 1940, Page 8
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118EARLY FOOTBALL Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 250, 16 December 1940, Page 8
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