Rugby Ball in a Glass Case.
A story of a Rugby football that was unusually prized was told by Mr J. F. Jones, of Hastings, during an address to the Hastings Rotary Club, when speaking of his recent visit to the Cook Islands. At Rarotonga he interested himself in the schools, and at one school he asked that he be allowed to make a gift. To his surprise it was suggested that his gift take the form a a Rugby football. “They had never had a Rugby football and thought it would be wonderful to possess one,” he said. “I was succesful in obtaining one and duly presented it to the school. Some three weeks later when I made another visit to the school the-re was that football, if you please, displayed prominently in a glass case; it was something precious, and to be used only on special occasions.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1938, Page 11
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149Rugby Ball in a Glass Case. Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1938, Page 11
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