THE COLOUR BAR
MAORIS AND RUGBY LEAGUE TEAM COMPARED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WAIROA, This Day. A statement to the effect that if there were not so much colour bar in Rugby there would be more Maoris included in the All Black teams, was made by -Mr. E. L. Cullen, M.P., at the opening of the new Rangiahuia Native school. The remark was made by Mr. Cullen during the course of reference to a farewell which had,< been given to members of the New Zealand Rugby League team in Parliament Buildings last week before their departure for England. There were, he said, six young Maori boys in that team, magnificent specimens of the race. They were going to do battle on the football fields at Home, and while there he felt sure they would uphold the highest traditions of their race. While in England they would be ambassadors of this country. . i "There is no colour bar there," he' added, referring to the League team,! "and if there was not so much colour' bar in Rugby we would have more I Maoris. wearing the silver fern than in the past." Mr. Cullen added that he,had seen young Maoris playing in the Wairoa Rugby representative team who were well worth a game with the Hawke's Bay team.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 26, 31 July 1939, Page 7
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215THE COLOUR BAR Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 26, 31 July 1939, Page 7
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