RUGBY IN EGYPT
NEW ZEALANDERS DEFEAT BRITISH TEAM. (Official War Correspondent, N.Z.E.F.) CAIRO, January 10. Spectacular and speedy Rugby was again played by the N.Z.E.F. side at the weekend when they defeated the Cairo area British team, 16-6. The New Zealanders’ tries were scored by Kirschberg (2), G. F. Hart, the All Black, who played a grand game, and Ratema, the Maori crack swimmer who, as wing three-quarter, scored the prettiest try of the match. Cairo’s points came from a dropped goal from a mark, and a penalty. The match attracted a crowd of 5000 at the Gizera sporting ground. New Zealand was beaten in the set scrums, but the forwards controlled the game in the loose.
Though the match was not up to the standard of that in which the New Zealanders beat the Springboks, it was interesting throughout, with brilliant patches.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1943, Page 2
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