LEAGUE FOOTBALL.
LOSS ON AUSTRALIAN TOUR.
(Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day
The New South Wales and Queensland Rugby Leagues are foregoing £IOOO advanced to the New Zealand Rugby League in connection with the recent football tour, and are giving the visitors £2OO. This is to enable fulfilment of the contract of the Dominion with the players. The tour resulted in a loss of £I2OO. The expenses totalled £2700. The "Telegraph-Pictorial" says that from the outset a substantial loss was anticipated. The New Zealanders were not an attractive combination and had no pulling power.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 262, 19 August 1930, Page 6
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