DINNER TO TEAMS
COMPLIMENTARY REMARKS
Ay/fRIBUTE TO NEPIA
"' (By Telegraph^—Press Association.) * : ":[ -."•:','^ ;^r,v;DUNEI>IN, 22ud:June. j ; At a'dinner to the teariis Dr. G. Adams,^ presidenV' oi:Kthe 'New-Zealand / Rugby ! Union, said that the All Blacks on the clay had met a superior team. He would like to see the three remaining lests played in the same spirit as the first. Britain had sh'own-that-the best defence was attack.'"' . • . _. , i Mr. J. Baxter, manager o£ the British team, paid a tribute to the "most magnify cent full-back it had ever been his pnvi^ lege to see, George Nepia." C. J>. Aarvold, the .British captain, said ho thought the British team should consider itself fortunate to win, just as the New ■■ Zealand team "was unfortunate to loSe. ~.•■-■■ . . „,, vr ' ■ ' Mr. E. Mllenzie, manager of the New Zealand team, said he thought that a draw would have indicated the merits of the play, of the,teams. . ' C. Porter, the New Zealand captain, said that the British side deserved its win, although there was not. much between the teatn6. •■. ," . ■
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 145, 23 June 1930, Page 4
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169DINNER TO TEAMS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 145, 23 June 1930, Page 4
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