East Coast Rugby Team Selected To Play Bay Of Plenty

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 49, 26 May 1950, Page 5

East Coast Rugby Team Selected To Play Bay Of Plenty

The East Coast Rugby represen-

tatives team to play Ray of Plenty !on June 3 at Opotiki in a trial game to assist in the selection of the Combined Bay of Plenty-East Coast-Poverty Bay side to meet the British Isles at Gisborne on June 21 has been announced from Ruatoria as follows, sub-unions being

indicated by the respective abbreviations: (Tok.) Tokomaru Bay; (Tol.) Tolaga Bay; (R) Ruatoria; (W) Waiapu; (M) Matakaoa:— Fullback: S. Kopua (Tok.). Three-quarters: B. Smith (Tol.), J. Maraki (Tok.), N. Goddard (Tok.).

Five-eighths: W. Rigby (R), L. Plane (Tok.). ■' Half-back: H. Paul (W). Back row: W. Peachey (W). Locks: W. Forrester (Tok.), SJensen (M). Side row: B. Hadfield (Tok.), W. Logan (Tol.). Front row: I. Hooper (Tol.), H. "Shelton (Tol.), G. Pairuru (M). Reserves: Backs, H. Abraham (M), J. Hooper (Tok), A. Te K.

Reedy (R), S. Reedy (R); forwards,

W. Crawford (Tol.), B. Henari (M), P. Renner (Tok.), J. Walker (R).

Mr J. Abraham, of Matakaoa, has been appointed manager. The team leaves Ruatoria on June 2. Mr D. Colbert, of Tokomaru Bay, the East Coast Union representative on: the Combined team’s selection committee, will travel with the team.