“A Sporting Action.”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1938, Page 4

“A Sporting Action.”

A sporting action by Dr G. J. Adams at Newcastle, the day before the All Blacks' match there, must have been noted and approved by many Australians who are not particularly interested in Rugby (writes the Sydney correspondent of the Christchurch “StarSun.”) Dr Adams went out of his way to help the Newcastle boys put up a good showing. He warned them that they could not hope to win by merely trying to repeat the spoiling tactics which, as he reminded them, had marred the first test in Sydney. He advised them to throw the ball about as much as they could. The result was a bright game, which the All Blacks won, 39-16. Bullock Drivers’ Chant. The building of Maori war canoes is accompanied by ritual which has been followed in building the earlier of Princess Te Puea’s fleet of seven for the Centenary. This fact was mentioned by Mr M. Lee in an address at the Auckland Museum, the speaker stating, however, that as time was pressing, the ritual had, he understood, been omitted in the case of one canoe. Although there was no ritual in the ordinary way, Mr Lee said, there was nevertheless some ceremonial chanting by the bullock drivers who hauled the sections of the canoe out of the forest —the chanting being a sort of combination of European cursing and Maori pleading.