RUGBY FOOTBALL.
ALL BLACK TOUR NEXT YEAR. WAR. MAY CAUSE ABANDONMENT WELLINGTON, November 22. The executive of the New Zealand Rugby Union to-night reaffirmed its previous decision that if the war is still on on January I next,- the tour of the Now Zealand team to South Africa next year will be abandoned. “The war against Germany ha® compelled us to cancel all serious football until further notice,” said a letter from Engineer-Commander S. F. Cooper, secretary of the Rugby Football Union, England. “It has been a bitter blow to us to have received the Australian team, which arrived on September 1, and then to see them depart for Australia on September 16, without having kicked a ball. The situation is so obscure it is impossible to picture any_ games being played in the near future. I am afraid the International Board will not be considering any questions of law until the war is over.”
In reply to a cablegram from the High Commissioner for New Zealand, permission was granted to a. Rugby team, of a New Zealand military unit in England to play in black jerseys and shorts.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 37, 23 November 1939, Page 2
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