ENGLISH FOOTBALLERS
The English amateur Association football team played its first'game of the tour against Hawke's Bay and Poverty Bay at Napier this afternoon, and will play the second against Wel-lington-Manawatu-Wairarapa ■on the. Basin Reserve 'on Saturday afternoon. They will be met on. their arrival by the Napier express.at Thorndon Station' tomorrow afternoon by the members of the council' of the New Zealand Football Association and the management committee of the Wellington Football Association, as well as by a large #umber of enthusiasts. ' The first social function of the visitors will be a reception to be given tomorrow, night by the New Zealand Football Association in conjunction with the combined English^ County Societies.' On Saturday morning the team will probably have a work-out on a city reserve, and after the game the visitors and the Wellington side will be entertained at an official dinner to be given by the New Zealand .Football Association. Sunday and Monday will be free days for the Englishmen,, except for the laying of a wreath on the Citizens' War Memorial at 10.30 a.m. on Monday and. morning tea at Parliament House-afterwards. The team will leave for the south on Monday night.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1937, Page 11
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196ENGLISH FOOTBALLERS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1937, Page 11
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