NOT CORRECT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 14, 17 January 1940, Page 8

NOT CORRECT.

RUGBY LEAGUE TOUR.

WHAT NEW ZEALAND SOUGHT

TEAM HERE FOR CENTEjNARY.

In connection with yesterday's cablegram from Sydney that New Zealand's offer to «end a team to Australia this year is almost certain to be accented, Mr. J. A. Redwood, Dominion president, informed the "Auckland Star" to-day that no correspondence had passed between the Australian Board «f Control and the Xew Zealand Council on such a project.

An unofficial letter had been written to Mr. H. R. Miller, eecretary of the Imard, and X.S.W. League, suggesting that a. team be sent to this country while the Xew Zealand Centenary celebrations were in progress, but further than that no tour had been mooted.

ILul conditions boon nonnul. Xow Zealand would probably liiive vcluni-'d t'.e visit later in t-Jie winter. "Meantime." f;ii<l Mr. Kedwood, "our iiciivitiee iirc (.onlined to this <-<uinti \"s defdi'p uccdf. and tlio call cw patriotism is stronger than that of sport. Xo doubt Australia is hi the same position, ats i>vi<lcnced by tiincelliition of the tour of Xt>\v Zealand by lend in-/ Australian tennis players, nnd it vamc as a sui piino to me to road the ceblegi a,ui at a time when no reply bad been made to the proposal that the Kangatkioe should tome to Xew Zealand for the Centenary."