a high standard. It would be safe to prophesy that 75 per cent, of the members of the Test teams would come from the Western Province. African forwards were big, strong men, who did only forwards’ work. The rest they left to the backs. When questioned regarding the effect of the high altitude of Transvaal on the New Zealanders, the Dunedin man stated they would be playing thousands of feet above sea level and that* whether the effect/ of the rarified atmosphere! was apparent or not, it would nevertheless tell against the team. The All Blacks were now coming into conditions more like their own, however, and they would be physically better equipped for their matches. It was not generally known, he added, that the 1916 Springboks team which toured England suffered a defeat some time before it left South A frica at the hands of the Durban j New Zealanders’ Club, with 120 members, the score being tlirgs points C* penalty goal); to nil,
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1928, Page 1
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