GEORGE NEPIA IS NOT GOING TO MASTERTON

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 305, 16 March 1928, Page 11

GEORGE NEPIA IS NOT GOING TO MASTERTON

Members of the All Black Rugby team which visited England a year or two ago say that George Nepia has quite a good sense of humour. If so, the cheery young Maori footballer must be chuckling to himself in the back country of Hawke’s Bay over the latest canard that has been going the rounds about his future movements. It is one of many. It is not a transfer to League this time, but a story that Nepia is negotiating for a business appointment in Masterton, and that if it comes off the brilliant native player will be wearing the Wairarapa jersey next year with Irvine and Cooke, two of his old Hawke’s Bay comrades. Down Hawke’s Bay way they are pretty well informed of Nepia’s movements and THE SUN'S Napier correspondent writes on the best of authority that Nepia has no intention whatsoever of leaving Ruatoria, a little settlement up toward the East Cape, where he is now comfortably settled on a farm. And so another groundless rumour goes by the board, swelling an already long list of rash guesses, of which the recent premature report of the selection of the All Black captain and vice - cap tai n was a case in point. i ---■ ' - ■ ~