SHIELD GAME OFF.
SOUTHLAND XINE FLOODED. OTAGO TO GO SOUTH NEXT WEEK. (By Telegraph.—rrcss Association.! JXVERCARGILL, Friday. A decision was made by the Southland Rugby Union late this afternoon to postpone the Ranfurly Shield mateb. to have been played between Otago and Southland to-morrow. It was reported to the committee by the Railway Department that because of the main line being flooded at McXab no trains would be able to get- through to Invcrcargill. The match will be played at Invercargill next Saturday. Southland and Otago were to have played a return match at Dunedin next Saturday. That fixture will now be played at the end of September, after the Southland and Otago teams return from their northern tours.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 177, 29 July 1939, Page 15
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