TRIAL TEAMS CHOSEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 965, 7 May 1930, Page 10

TRIAL TEAMS CHOSEN

POSSIBLES V. PROBABLES MATCH NORTH ISLAND TEST Press Association PALMERSTON X., Today. The North Island selectors. E. McKenzie (Wairarapa), N. McKenzie (Hawke’s Bay) and 11. Nicolson (Auckland). met here this morning and selected the-, following North Island teams to play a trial match here on Wednesday next:

Probables. —Fullback: Thomas (Waikato): threequarters: Fuller (Wairarapa), Ruru (Hawke's Bay), Minns (Auckland); five-eighths: M. Nicholls (Wellington). L. Johnson (Wellington); halfback: Kilby (Wellington); wingforward: Solomon (Auckland): fiont row: Irvine (Wairarapa), Palmer (Auckland); lock: Harvey (Wairarapa) ; supports, McWilliams (Waikato), A. Knight (Auckland); back row: Batty (Auckland), McKay (Hawke's Bay). Possibles. Fulback: Heazelwood (Wellington); tlireequarters: Elvy (Wellington). Lucas (Auckland). Mackay (Wellington: five-eighths: Cooke (Wairarapa), McKenzie (Wellington); halfback: Corner (Auckland): wingforward: Porter (Wellington): front row: Reid (Wairarapa), Coulston (Wellington); lock: Steere (Hawke’s Bay); supports: Finlayson (North Auckland), Campbell (Hawke’s Bay). Mahoney (Bush), McLean (Taranaki). Emergencies.—Backs: Ball (Wellington), Stringfellow (Wairarapa): forwards: Gerrard (Bush), Jessop (Wellington). No nominations were received iron; the Wanganui or King Country Unions while those of the East Coast Union arrived too late to be considered. Ii is, however, the intention of the selectors to take them into account on tlie occasion of the New Zealand Probables v. Possibles match..

The four emergencies for the North Island trial will be given an opportunity to prove their claims in the second spell of the local game.