TARANAKI FOOTBALLERS.
' MOTORING THROUGH DLSTHKT. VISIT TO WAIHI MINE. Members Qf the Taranaki Rugby foqtball team passed through Paeroa yesterday, enroute to Auckland, where they will meet the Auckland team ito-: morrow. On Tuesday they were the guests of the Thames Valley Union, and were taken toi Waihi. After lupch the party inspected the surface .workings of the Waihi mine, and also saw a face In a drive which they entered from the hillside. They were much interested in the working of a “popper” (rock drill), as tq nearly all of them the experience: of being underground in a gold mine was new. On the return trip the party wete shown over the Waikino. battery. The president, of .the Thames Valley Union. Mr J. W. Silcock, and the: chairman of the. Piako, Rugby Union,, Mr C. W. Kennedy, accompanied the team. Among the party of visitors were Mr R. Masters, of Stratford, who until last election ‘was Member of Parliament for Stratford, and is now one of the chief advocates of the United Party, and Mr J. Garcia, a onetime resident, of Paeroa who i s now op the literary staff of the Taranaki News.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5329, 21 September 1928, Page 2
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195TARANAKI FOOTBALLERS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5329, 21 September 1928, Page 2
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