IF "ALL BLACKS "WENT HOME.
HOW WOULD THEY PAKE? j Dr. Newman told the Wellington Rugby Union delegates at their meeting last evening that, when in England, ho discussed vrith Mr. Rowland Hill the onesHon of sending Home a Now Zealand team. Mr. Hill considered thai, the matter could he easily arranged, but marolles would bo confined to England and Wales. Scotland and Ireland would hot nlii.v our men. The popular idea in England appeared (o be, declared Dr. Newman, that in New Zealand there was a good climate, capital football, ftud trout. Englishmen did not seem to know anything else about Nc\v Zealand. It. was wonderful how the "All Blacks" were remembered, but it seemed to be commonly held that, if another New Zealand team visited the Old Country, it would not have such "soft things as the "All-Blacks" met and coaiuerod.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1089, 30 March 1911, Page 4
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143IF "ALL BLACKS "WENT HOME. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1089, 30 March 1911, Page 4
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