April 08, 2015
Unsuccessful tries and eventual conversion
Singular recollections of rugby
in New Zealand in the 1960s
by Murray Bramwell
I think the year must have been 1958. It is Palmerston North, a large-ish town in New Zealand’s North Island. I am at a school like many, all up and down the country. Hokowhitu Primary School, with maybe four hundred other kids – boys with fair-isle jumpers and freckles and ringworm haircuts, the girls in plaits and white ankle socks, the teachers in tweed with pipes and …
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