Aboriginals’ itinerary
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY. An Australian Aboriginal Rugby League team will playsix matches in New Zealand later this month. The secretary of the New South Wales Rugby League (Mr K. Stephen) said yesterday that the party of .30 players and six officials would leave Sydney on Friday, and would play two matches against Te Atatu in Auckland on Saturday. On Monday, a team would meet a local representative team at Rotorua, and on Saturday two matches would be played in Wellington — one against Petone and the other against Marist. The final match of the tour would be at Christchurch, against a Canterbury XIII on February 25. Five tribal dancers from Arnhem Land would travel with the team to give exhibitions of dancing in New Zealand.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33153, 17 February 1973, Page 20
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