The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 2 (June 2, 1930)
Full Stomachs and Full Backs
Full Stomachs and Full Backs.
You, fond parent, who have decreed that little Theobald shall function as a Director of Railways, have you never considered the possibility of him going even higher and becoming a Porter? You, proud proprietor of infantile masculinity—
page 14who have arranged that the child Harold shall manage grand hotels, has it never occurred to you that he might take the ball in his own hands and develop even into a Cooke? For truly, the future of New Zealand Rugby lurks in the pram, and the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that screws the scrum. When marvelling at the voracity of Victor, does it never occur to you that full stomachs in infancy make full-backs in maturity; and that: