CIVIC WELCOME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 194, 18 August 1931, Page 8

CIVIC WELCOME.

BEST WISHES FROM MAYOR,

"WE ARE HERE TO LEARN."

At midday a civic welcome -was' given to the Australian Rugby team -which nrrived by the Ulimaroa this morning ihe council chamber at the Town Hall was crowded.

"It gives me the greatest pleasure to extend to the members of the Australian team a cordial welcome to our city, said the Mayor, Mr. G. W. Hutchi?w a * " ab , ol,t seventeen years ago that Australia last paid ue the compliment of sending a Commonwealth team ?L CI T T I, dOin know the "suit of the Test matches that season, but that does not matter-it's the game tat counts New Zealand is koi forward to matches with the tean whose fame has preceded them. There are uTbu Fa* tCam Which are S A^aHafa^^^instan team - " Wc as footbalW t a,as bpst ' not on] y of men v i "> also the ' bcs t type h\" a vp,-v gby I" A,,st '-alia Li beconiiue soleiv rif ful force ' and that is Zealand &o°n« he f ° f the *™ s fniMtL v Mr - Davis extended eaShaS rew Zealanrt in the rccent cause-52 % N , eW Ze aland, he said, beflesh a S Ti S alanders weie tlicir own fovtitn „ Th Tt wae fi ne to s «« the J* a ! 1(l bl ? effort that the country had made for rehabilitation. ■ th«L f ein 1928 > and I know what ti se boys are in f or » saic l Mr. S. J. Ma coin,, captai Qf the tpam .. T doii . t know how we will get them to play footHiiii t °- ,eai »ed inanv football tii ngs from New Zealand and we are I J »cio again to lcavn." j