LEAGUE INVITED
Match On Coast
The West Coast Rugby League has decided to invite Canterbury to play at Greymouth on Queen's Birthday Sunday next year as part of its golden jubilee celebrations.
A special meeting of the league in Greymouth decided that the date would be fitting because it was against Canterbury on June 3, 1915, that the West Coast played its first representative match. The code was established on the West Coast only two days after the match.
Mr L. Hunter, a life member of the West Coast Rugby League, who played in the first match against Canterbury, attended the meeting. Since 1915 Canterbury has won 38 games. West Coast 33 and only one of the 72 matches has been drawn. However, it is understood that the Canterbury board of control is interested in holding the first home-and-away match in Christchurch on Queen’s Birthday Monday with a Canterbury B team to play Otago as the curtain-raiser. Last season the first match was played in Greymouth.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30593, 9 November 1964, Page 15
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166LEAGUE INVITED Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30593, 9 November 1964, Page 15
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