RUGBY IN WAR-TIME
NEW ZEALAND UNION’S AIM The main objective of the New Zealand Rugby Union was to keep the game going so that everything would be in readiness to take up the normal running after the war, said Mr S. fa. Dean, chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Council, at the reception to players and officials after the interisland services’ match in Wellington. This match was the first of its kind to be promoted by the New Zealand Rugby Union. Matches for teams representing the services had proved very popular, said Mr Dean, and would doubtless form a substantial part of Rugby programmes during the war; The New Zealand Union would co-operate to the utmost in promoting and assisting such games There had been general regret that the war had compelled the cancellation of the tour of South, Africa, said Mr Dean but an unofficial New Zealand team’chosen from the second echelon had played a match there during a short visit. Most of the country's leading players were with the forces, and in the future it .would be possible to field almost a fully representative All Black side from the various echelons overseas.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24419, 3 October 1940, Page 2
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194RUGBY IN WAR-TIME Otago Daily Times, Issue 24419, 3 October 1940, Page 2
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