Jim Mills withdraws
NZPA staff correspondent Londo: The controversial Welsh rugby league prop, Jim Mills, has withdrawn from the British team due to leave next week for world championship matches in New Zealand and Australia. Mills, banned from playing in New Zealand, gave only “personal reasons” when he told the English league secretary, Mr David Oxley, yesterday that he would not be going. “I understand they are very [deep personal reasons known only to Jim and to the tour manager, Reg Parker,” Mr Oxley told the NZPA yesterday. “But I’m pretty sure they’re not related to New Zealand’s views of Jim.”
| Mr Oxley said that both iMills and the league had accepted New Zealand’s ban on 'him playing here, although they disagreed with it. “I know that Jim was looking forward to going to New Zealand, even though he knew he wouldn’t be playing there,” he said.
Mills’s replacement will be a 21-year-old Featherstone Rovers forward, Peter Smith, who scored 19 tries this season, a record for a forward. The British team leaves for New Zealand next Tuesday
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