PRIMARY RUGBY TEAM

Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1940, Page 8

PRIMARY RUGBY TEAM

TARANAKI V. WANGANUI A Taranaki primary schools' Rugby football fifteen and four emergencies will leave the provir.ee on Friday afternoon to play a match at Wanganui on Saturday with a similar team from schools in the Rugby Union's Wanganui district. The team, which will be in the charge of Messrs. L. J. Furrie, Stratford, and A. B. Gilbert, New Plymouth, will travel by the southwards train, the Flyer, which leaves New Plymouth shortly after lunch. Players will be picked up at New Plymouth, Stratford and Hawera. The match. will be played on Saturday morning and the team will return by the New Plymouth mail train that day. The match takes the place of the Rangitikei tournament in which Taranaki always enters, but which was this year abandoned owing to the unusual difficulties occasioned by the war. The Wanganui team won a recent tournament played at Wellington in which teams from the Hutt, Wairarapa, Wanganui and Wellington districts took part. The only big match experience that the Taranaki boys have had this season was the annual North and South schools' match. The match is for players who come within a nine stone weight limit, and the j Taranaki team is announced by the : selectors, Messrs. Furrie, Stratford, and M. Smith, New Plymouth, as follows:— Dravitski; Mclsaac, Mather. Hayter; Cameron (capt.), Curd; Walsh; Kissick, Magon, Mitchell, Corkill, R. Walsh, Waswo, Kinkan, Evans. Emergencies: McNeil, Aylward; McCurdy, Russell.