ALL BLACK GOING TO ENGLAND
CONTRACT TO PLAY RUGBY LEAGUE
(New Zealand Press Association) r> + WANGANUI, September 7. An e & r F«P<ferson. the Wanganui and All Black three-quarters has accepted ?n offer to play lor the Huddersiieia Rugby League Club in England. He will leave New Zealand as soon as an air passage can be obtained. • **®nderson made his last appearance ln the amateur Rugby Union code in yesterday s match between Wanganui and Hawke’s Bay at Napier Henderson played in all four tests against the Springboks in South Africa m 1949, and in three tests against the British Isles team which toured New Zealand this season. He was not fit for the first test against the British Isles at Dunedin. Henderson declined Ln offer earlier this, season to play Rugby League in England. He says that the offer he nas now received is so attractive that he would be foolish in his own interests to decline it.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26212, 8 September 1950, Page 6
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