MP to have plastic surgery

But this surgery is in a good cause. Sunday News reports:

MP will have plastic surgery to repair a badly broken nose, busted while playing for the Parliamentary Rugby XV.

Hughes, the only MP in the side, suffered the injury on Monday in a game against a Diplomatic Corps XV in . The match was a warm-up for the Parliamentary World Cup, starting next Sunday.

The broken nose forced him out of yesterday's game against a West Coast invitational team in Greymouth – won by the Coasters 12-0.

“I got the ball out of a ruck and started charging it up,” Hughes said. “But then I got knocked with some guy's forearm.

“I went down and an awesome amount of blood came out. I went off to hospital and they said, `Wow, that [nose] is really bent'.” …

Hughes will return to Wellington next week for surgery to straighten his nose.

“I'm out of the World Cup unfortunately,” he said.

“But I will offer to be their boy.

Hughes suffered cracked ribs in his debut for the Parliamentary World Cup side at Murupara in July.

“But it hasn't put me off rugby. I will definitely play again when I am fit,” he said.

Good on Gareth for showing some Kiwi guts, and sticking with the game.

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