RUGBY TOUR
Protest If Team White
(N.Z. Press Association:
WELLINGTON, Nov. 26. The Wellington Citizens’ AU Black Tour Association would organise a New Zea-land-wide movement of protest if the New Zealand Rugby Union agreed to send an all-white team to South Africa in 1967, the association’s chairman (Mr Rolland O’Regan) said today. Public reaction would be more widespread if the union made the same decision it made in 1960, he said. The association was formed as a result of the union’s decision to send an all-white team to South Africa in 1960.
In 1960 it sponsored a na-tion-wide petition on the issue and was widely supported by church groups and trade unions, but its efforts were unsuccessful, said Mr O’Regan. “This time we would hope to succeed in preventing the team leaving the country.” He said the association would discuss the matter as soon as it received official word of the New Zealand Rugby Union’s decision.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30919, 27 November 1965, Page 16
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156RUGBY TOUR Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30919, 27 November 1965, Page 16
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