RUGBY FOOTBALL
TEAM FOR SOUTH AFRICA ARRANGEMENTS FOR 1940 (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Wednesday The executive of the New Zealand Rugby Union at a meeting to-day accepted the formal invitation to send a team to south Africa next year. It was decided to suggest to the New Zealand Rugby Council that the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union be held in Wellington on May 3 and the meeting of the council be held on May 2. In a statement prior to thp meeting, Mr S. S. Dean, chairman of the management committee, said that the South African itinerary would he con- ! sidered by the council, tie added that when the New Zealand team visited South Africa in 1928 the scries of tests was extended to provide for a fourth | match, flic result of which enabled New Zealand to draw level with South Africa in test wins. On each of the Springbok visits to New Zealand three tests were played in this country but the tourists also played in Australia, a fact which had a hearing upon the numhc.* '■
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20738, 23 February 1939, Page 2
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180RUGBY FOOTBALL Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20738, 23 February 1939, Page 2
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