Payment of fares likely
(N.Z.P.A. Staff Correspondent) PARIS.
The French Rugby League is likely to offer to pay air fares to and from France for any young New Zealand players willing to spend a season with a French club, writes Alan Graham. The Canterbury half-back, R. Cooksley, has already negotiated to spend a season with the Avignon club, and will stay on in France at the end of the present Kiwi tour of France and Britain. Under a protocol agreed by the four World Cup nations in Paris last week, France is allowed to take up to 20 overseas players in any one season, with no more than two of them going to any one club. French officials have told the Kiwis that they would prefer students to workers, but any players are eligible. French clubs will arrange jobs, accommodation, and playing fees.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33062, 1 November 1972, Page 18
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