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Schoolboy Representatives for Overseas Sport.

The suggestion made early in December that a team of New Zealand schoolboys should be chosen to represent the Dominion against other schoolboys from England, Canada, Australia and South Africa during the Coronation festivities in the Old Land is a good one. Financial arrangements will have to be made in New Zealand if the tour is to be gone ahead with, but what school or college could not raise a large sum to send its best bowler or batsman away to represent New Zealand?

The honour of representing New Zealand at sport during the days at school falls to few lads. Unless it be at swimming, where there seems to be more frequent occurrences of the schoolboys being up to representative standard, the only opportunity given in recent years was in the Secondary Schools’ Athletic team to the Melbourne Centenary. It is passing strange that a team of Secondary Schools’ Rugby players has not been sent abroad ere this. About twenty-five years ago a team of Maori Rugby footballers was sent to Australia from the great college—Te Aute. This team amazed Australians by the display of the type of football for which the Maori players are noted.