RUGBY FOOTBALL ALL BLACK TOUR OF AUSTRALIA
> ——to • FIRST MATCH AT WAGGA (N.Z. Prett jissoetaHon—Copyright) ' I ... . • ' SYDNEY, April 10. The All Blacks’Rugby Union team will open its tour of Australia on June 13 at • Wagga Instead of Canberra. This was <fe- ■ elded by the New South Wales Rugby , Union Council last night at the request , of the management committee, because Canberra would nbt accept the All Blacks ; on the usual conditions of "pay all. take All international Rugby Union teams since the war have played matches at , Canberra. Wagga is keen to have a match and It is confident it can make a financial success of it. The Canberra delegate said that Can- ; berra lost last year on the British Isles ’ match and might be placed in an embarrassing position if the All Blacks , played there in similar conditions.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26393, 11 April 1951, Page 4
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