FAREWELL TO WALLABIES
SPORTING SPIRIT OF TOURISTS PRESENTATIONS TO LEADERS [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, September 24. The Australian Rugby team were entertained to-day at a gathering attended by members of the New Zealand Rugby Union and the Wellington Rugby Union and the president of the New Zealand Rugby Union (Mr R. J. Smith, of Pahiatua). Presentations were- made to Mr E. G. Shaw (manager ,of the team), Air W. H. Cerntti (acting manager for most of the tour), and Mr E. S. Hayes (the captain), as well as Messrs J. G. Roadie and F. T. Glasgow (members of the New Zealand Rugby Union who accompanied the team as representatives of the parent body on the North Island and South Island portions of the tour respectively), and Mr T. Davis (of Auckland, baggage man and masseur). Sympathetic reference was made by several speakers to the continuous run of misfortunes which the team had experienced on the tour in the matter of injuries. Messrs Glasgow and Roache both said that in all their long experience of football they had never met a team which had accepted defeats and misfortunes in a more sporting spirit or kept at the task with such determination in spite of many handicaps.
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Evening Star, Issue 22453, 25 September 1936, Page 5
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206FAREWELL TO WALLABIES Evening Star, Issue 22453, 25 September 1936, Page 5
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