RUGBY LEAGUE VISIT.
CHAMPION SYDNEY CLUB. MATCHES NEXT MONTH. GABLE ADVICE TO-DAY. Cablegraphic advice received to-day by til© secretary of the New Zealand Rugby League Council (Mr. 0. E. Carlaw), intimates that the South Sydney Club team, which lyie. won the New South Wales premiership for live consecutive seasons, definitely has decided to make the tour to New Zealand. ■ The visitors are booked to leave Sydnew on October 4, will al'i'ive at Auckland on the Bth, and < will play three matches fixed for the 12th, 16th and 19th, as proposed by the New Zealand Council. It is not yet certain what teams will be played against the visiting champions, who will' return to the Commonwealth by the Tahiti leaving Wellington on October 22. It is understood' that a fairly large party of players and supporters, together with a number of prominent officials of ; the League will be making the trip, in which a good deal of interest already is being manifested.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 224, 21 September 1929, Page 11
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