The Lions Relax at Gisborne

Real lions, as everybody knows, hunt only by night, which could lead some observers of the British Isles forwards to read parables into the context between these pictures and the form so far shown by the visitors on the football field. But then, even test football is still only a game, and the Lions have shown that they are players both on and off the field. During their stay in Gisborne they made many friends, saw some things they had never seen before, played a good game, and had a good time.

Members of the team absorbed in the exhibition of shearing given at Adairs by the world champion shearer, Godfrey Bowen. At left in front row are Mr Glasgow, team secretary, Mr A. W. Wilson, team manager, and Ron Dawson. team captain.

At the cabaret held at Kaiti Pa on the evening after the game, some of the Lions really "went to town". Here Waddell and Jackson Join in with members of the Maori party.

Reg Marques, the 6ft 5in second-row forward, has impressive techniques in the line-outs, and by the look of this picture is even more outstanding as an entertainer.

Ken Scotland, the full-back, tries out a step with a fellow team-member.

Poi dance didn't gain full marques for Reg, but it convulsed Tony O'Reilly, Ron Dawson, Ken Scotland, Rhys Williams, and Mrs Val Halstead.

Snapped by the camera at the cabaret are Mr and Mrs W. S. McKee. Mr McKee is now in his 35th year as secretary of the Poverty Bay Rugby Union.

Here's that man Marques again, making progress with some of the subtler variations of native dancing.

Also snapped were Mr and Mrs R. A. White.

A warrior Lion entertaining his team-mates.
(All Cabaret Photographs Are By Kandid Kamera Kraft)

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The Gisborne Photo News

No 61 : July 23, 1959

The Lions Relax at Gisborne