Southland Railway Club Notes....August 1969

On Sunday last we played our old friends from Justice Institution with a win to Murihiku.  It was a fast game with the better team winning in the main by being fitter.

The institution team played a hard running game, tossing the ball around.  Our boys played a reasonable game but just could not combine to make a driving team.  John Taylor ran hard but did not get enough good ball to show results.  Mike Adamu, Bill Heki, Sam Wainui all played as well as the conditions allowed and made a number of good breaks.

Ron White as hooker played well and Gabby Haitana made excellent breaks, scoring two opportunist tries.  Danny Madden also played a driving game and made some good drives.  Ken Katene played his usual working game and Keith Portor did some very useful work.  David Donaghue ran hard scoring a try in the first half.  Lenny Peterson, Mark Nepia and Mike Adamu all really tried to play rugby and endeavour to keep the game flowing.  The team to play the first South Island trial at Clinton was picked and the boys were quite keen to hear the team read out.  Some surprises were evident in the team.

Ken Katene has again made the Southland Junior team.

Thanks to Stormie for refereeing the game and president, John Taylor.

Congratulations to our captain, Mark Nepia, who is playing for the Southland Maori side and playing, well.

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