One of New Zealand's all-time great rugby players, George Nēpia (Ngāti Rākaipaaka), kicks to touch during his only rugby league test, against Australia in 1937. The fullback was a casualty of the New Zealand Rugby Union’s decision to bow to South Africa's racist policies, when they selected only white players for the 1928 tour of South Africa.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, S. P. Andrew Collection (PAColl-3739)
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Photograph by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew
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