Our Senior Missionary outing for the month of October was to visit Palmerston North. It's about 2 hours north of Wellington. There we were able to see the National Rugby Museum and visit the Esplanade Park.
This is the view of Palmerston North from Anzac Park just south of town.
It's a beautiful setting on the shores of the Manawatu river.
Here we are outside the museum
We're quite a large group now with the Beckstead's, Kezerian's, Freeman's, Shepherd's, Overton's, McVey's and Hadlock's
The museum divides periods of time into 10-year segments and displays material from that era
This whistle is used to start the opening game of every Rugby World Cup opening game
This coin is flipped at the beginning of every Rugby World Cup opening game to decide who gets the ball
Here's one of the earliest "All-Black" jersey's
An early "All-Black" team doing the traditional "HAKA" - they don't look to formidable do they!
One of the earliest team pictures known in New Zealand
The visiting British team in 1905
Does this guy enjoy the game? It's a WWII photo.
2nd from the right is LDS member Sid Going. He gave up a lucrative "All-Black" contract to serve a mission in Canada for the church. When he returned from a successful mission he became one of the most famed "All-Blacks" every. Read the comments below that accompanied this photo in the museum!
"Probably the only truly "Great" player playing in New Zealand today! - What an honor!
Here we are inside the museum
This is where we all went to have lunch, "Cafe Esplanade" in Esplanade Park
Couldn't even get Ann in the photo
After lunch we walked around the park for some time. There was a bird sanctuary and a small botanical gardens...very nice!
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