RUGBY PROSPECTS (?)
IT i£ hard to realise the fierce wave of enthusiasm which annually swept us about this time of the year in the past. Rugby, the game which gave New Zealand world-wide publicity should by all the rules be coming into its own. Whakatane has little to hold out by way of promoting the good old, game to-day and after last year's disappointing experience the prospects are even less, for the coming season. However it is pleasing to note that the annual meeting is called for this evening at Taneatua, and that a group of loyalists are still apparently willing to 'give it a go.' The whole outlook is bleak, for with ninety per cent of the players already absent on service and further military ballots pending, the inauguration of a stable competition seems hopeless. It would appear however that the chance is ripe foJ concentration upon a better standard of junior football which might be assisted with a little friendly interHome Guard contests. Whatever the result we can only do our best to foster the code under the extraordinary circumsSanees in which we now find ourselves as a result of war conditions.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 52, 13 May 1942, Page 4
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194RUGBY PROSPECTS (?) Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 52, 13 May 1942, Page 4
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