All Football Codes Medals & Awards

Lot 2446    Day 2    All Football Codes Medals & Awards

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THE VISIT OF THE MAORI RUGBY FOOTBALL TEAM TO GREAT BRITAIN, 1926-1927, struck in silver (51mm), by E&Co (double struck) (Elkington & Co Ltd, London) (M.1926-27/1), in case of issue by Elkington & Co. Ltd. with inside of lid lining marked in pen 'To Billi Tahiwi/From/Uncle/Kingi Tahiwi'. Case with some damage, medal toned extremely fine and rare awarded.

The 1926-27 New Zealand Maori rugby union tour was a collection of rugby union games undertaken by the New Zealand Maori against invitational and national teams of New Zealand, Australia, France, Great Britain and Canada. On the team's departure, Kingi Tahiwi, secretary of the Maori Advisory Board, urged the team to keep to the traditions of the Maori people and he hoped they would succeed in making the link between England and France even stronger.^ ^Kingi Te Ahoaho Tahiwi was a namesake of his uncle who was a signatory to the Treaty of Waitangi. He was a keen rugby enthusiast, secretary of the Maori Advisory Board that was established in 1922 and also was on the management and executive committees of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union from 1927 until 1948.