MAORI RUGBY TOURISTS
VISITS TO WINDSOR AND ETON. •' London, November 16 The Maori Rugbv team visited Windsor Castle, and later saw Eton’s famous wail game. The wall game, however,, proved so m.ysteriouji. with its bullies, getters, .and other, .technicalities; ‘tlffit the' Maori llugbv tourists, half-wav through, deserted their places on the 'trout wall and went to watch two junior house teams playing Rugby here. The Maori visitors divided themselves into two bodies, aiid cheered on the respective sides, to vio* tory. > • ■ *•:. Prior to this, the. Deaii. (the Rev. J. 11. Bailey) told the Maoris the stoi>-, of the. Garter in the Chapel Order? and also showed them the room where Shakespeare’s "Merrv Wives, of Wind:..' sor” was first played by the Choristers’ before Queen Elizabeth.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 46, 18 November 1926, Page 12
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125MAORI RUGBY TOURISTS Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 46, 18 November 1926, Page 12
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