RONGOTEA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 202, 27 July 1937, Page 2

RONGOTEA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.! RONGOTEA, July 27. The Rongotea Rugby team concluded its season on Saturday. In the first game of the season the team defeated Sanson and thereafter failed to win a game till the commencement of the third and final round although some of the games were evenly contested. The local players came into their own in the third round, when they beat the three opposing teams in turn after keenly contestod games to win the cup for most points in the final round. The '“knockout” competition was finalised on Saturday, when Rongotea (black) and Oroua Downs (yellow) played at Sanson, the latter winning by three points to nil gained from a penalty goal. Rongotea had the advantage in, the first spell, keeping the Downs on the defensive for the major part of the time, but failed to score. In the second half the Downs gradually gained the advantage, keeping Rongotea hard pressed, and from a penalty awarded them the Downs kicked a goal. They won the game and with it the Fagan Cup for the “knockout” competition. Rangiotu and Oroua Downs have still one game to play, which will decide who holds the AlcKohie Shield. This will bo the last of the club games for the season.

Tho South African War Veterans’ Association is* holding a Dominion conference in Wellington, and Mr A. Trenkner, of Rongotea, who has been appointed a delegate on behalf of the Palmerston North branch of tho association, left to-day in order to be prosent at the opening of the conference on Wednesday.