MEMORIES OF FOOTBALL TOUR OF 1888
Received Saturday, 12.54 a.m. LONDON. Oct. 31.
The Yorkshire Evening Post says that before Pat Smith, the New Zealand Rugby League captain left for the tour of England, he met Riki Taiaroa an 80-year-old paramount chief in the South Island, who has a station foui miles from Smith 's home. The chief gave Smith a Maori good luck note addressed to any surviving member oi the English Rugby team which, in England in 1888, met the Maori side oi which the chief is the sole survivor. A the dinner Which followed the New Zealanders' game with Hunslet, Smitl heard Joe Lewtwaite, the Hunslet pre" sident, tell the story of the 1883 matcl and .Smith passed on Taiaroa 's goodwib message. Mr. Lewtwaite, who has been a Hunslet player and official for 60 years, hopes to see Taiaroa again He wanted to tour Australia and Ne*w Zealand with the 1946 Rugby League team but could not get a passage. He hopes to book his own berth for the 1950 tour.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 November 1947, Page 5
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