LEAGUE SUPPORTERS REPAID
CONTRIBUTIONS TO COST OF 1939 TEAM
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, July 20. Nine years after their contributions were apparently lost because of the outbreak of war, supporters who contributed to the cost of sending the 1939 New Zealand Rugby League team to England will be repaid in full. The council of the New Zealand Rugby League agreed this evening to disburse the amount, about £3OOO, out of the profit of almost £20,000 made on the 1947-48 Kiwi tour of Britain and France. The 1939 team arrived in London at the end of August and played its first match on September 2 against St. Helens. The team’s performance was promising.. The next day war broke out. One more match was played and then the team came home. The finances of the New Zealand League were greatly weakened by this and it was not considered likely that the contributors” who had made the tour possible would ever be repaid.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25552, 21 July 1948, Page 4
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