SOUTH AFRICAN RUGBY TOUR
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y\ jl'ON, April to. Prospects for a Rugby tour of Soufi. Africa eventuating next year, weiv brightened today by a statement mad»to the X.Z.R.F.U. executive by tiu ehairman, Mr. S. S. Dean. ite said ship ping ditticulties would probably b. eased by the retum of the Domimo.i Monarch to her normal. peaeetinie ser vice next year. Mr. Dean said tiunderstood that the Dominion Monarcn was being reconv-erted and that, th. work would be completed by the end o. the year. Mr. J. Prendeville said he did no. think that the Dominion Monaryh would be commissioned until May. Mr. T. C. Morrison: That would sun us all right, as long as we got the teaiu away before the end of May. Keferring to the question of hou many tests there should be in South Africa, Mr. Dean said he thought tlia tliree would be ample. There was n--dissension from that opinion. A cable is to he sent to the Souti. African . Union requesting a report on sliipping prospeets by the timo of thc annual meeting on April 24. The following trials to select n Rugby team for Australia, htjive been arranged: Houth Islifnd at Christchurch May 14. North at Palmerston North • May 15. Final trial at Wellington •May 17.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 April 1947, Page 5
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