TEAM MANAGER
The team manager of the New Zealand side to tour Australia, Mr. W. J. Taylor, has the distinction of being the youngest member of the New Zealand Council. He is just on the wrong side of thirty, and has had a distinguished record on the administrative side of the code. He was secretary of the Hamilton Rugby League from 1917 to 1922. when the game made great progress in the Waikato. He was instrumental in procuring for the game from the Borough Council on lease Hincmoa Park. Coming to Auckland, he was secretary of the Ponsonby Club for a couple of seasons, and in 1926 he took a seat on the New Zealand Council as the South Auckland representative. He travelled with the English party round New Zealand in 1928 as the council’s official representative, and acted as manager of the New Zealand team for the two Southern test matches in that year.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 997, 13 June 1930, Page 7
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155TEAM MANAGER Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 997, 13 June 1930, Page 7
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