Editorial

Tu Tangata, Issue 9, 1 December 1982, Page 2

Editorial

Ki nga iwi o Aotearoa. He panui tenei hei whakamaumahara i nga toa takaro whutupaoro mai i te timatatanga tae noa ki tenei wa. No reira. Ki a Koutou i takaro whutupaoro i Wales, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou.

Greetings to the Maori All Blacks on the tour of Wales and Spain 1982. Great was the expectation of Maoridom and great was the fulfilment of that promise on the rugby fields of Wales and Spain.

At this historic time of the third major Maori rugby tour overseas following on the 1888 Native Rugby Team captained by Joe Warbrick and the 1926 overseas team captained by Wattie Barclay, Tu Tangata Maori News Magazine salutes Paul Quinn’s 1982 Maori All Black Team and those players who went before.

Within these pages are contained the flow of Maoridom, from the inception of the game of rugby up to the present day.

Such a record tells its own story about the ihi of the Maori people that has produced these sporting ambassadors.

“E tipu e rea Mo nga ra o to ao O ringa ki nga rakau a te Pakeha Hei oranga mo to tinana.

To ngakau ki nga taonga A o tipuna hei tikitiki mo to mahunga

To wairua kite Atua Nana nei nga mea katoa”

Maori All Blacks Wales Tour 1982

3 wins 3 losses 1 drawn