ALL BLACKS
TOUR OF SOUTH AFRICA. NEXT YEAR. UNION ACCEPTS INVITATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The All Blacks will endeavour to win back supremacy from the Springboks at Rugby football on South African fields next year. The executive of the New Zealand Rugby Union, at a meeting yesterday accepted a formal invitation to send a team to tour South Africa in 1940. The South African Rugby Football Board wrote, stating that a meeting on November 14, 1938, it was decided to send to the New Zealand Rugby Union a cordial invitation to send a New Zealand team to tour South Africa in the 1940 season. “My board will be pleased to receive your union’s acceptance of this invitation as soon as possible,” the letter stated, “and in the meantime is deferring any reference to details which can be dealt with after your reply has been received.” It was decided to accept the invitation. It was decided to suggest to the New Zealand Rugby Council that the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union should be held in Wellington on May 3, and that a meeting of the Council should be held on May 2.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 February 1939, Page 9
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