COLLEGIATE SOCCER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 220, 17 September 1938, Page 25

COLLEGIATE SOCCER.

N.Z. BOYS RETURN.

UNBEATEN IN AUSTRALIA.

EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF TOUR

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Friday.

Tlie New Zealand schoolboy Soccer team, which has l>een touring Australia, returned by the Maiiiiganui to-ilay. TUe manager, Mr. J. Y. Walls, in an interview, gaid the tour had been most successful in every way. The boys behaved splendidly, and had been repeatedly complimented by the parents of the boys with whom they were billeted.

Mr. Walls said he felt sure that the educational value of the tour would be considerable, apart altogether from the [ useful experience of the game. The matches had all been most enjoyable, and had been played in excellent spirit. There were no casualties, and a boy who contracted measles on the way to Australia recovered without the infection spreading. Every opportunity was taken to see as much as possible of the country. The boys were taken over the Melbourne Tram-way Board's depot, big steel works in Newcastle, and down a coal mine at Ceasnock, where they also visited vine-1 yarda.