S.A. trip for officials, too?
PA Auckland New Zealand Rugby Union councillors are believed to be going to South Africa for this month’s Western Province festival matches, an Auckland newspaper reported yesterday. They are expected to be on the plane leaving Auckland Airport on Sunday night with the All Blacks who have been invited to play in Western Province centennial matches. The All Blacks’ manager, Mr Paul Mitchell, is believed to be one of the councillors making the trip, according to the report. Yesterday Mr Mitchell would not confrim or deny his personal visit to South
Africa. “I’m not saying anything one way or the other,” he said.
“We are concentrating on the test at this stage. That is our priority and anything else is incidental.” Mr Mitchell has not previously been to South Africa but said: “If there were invitations going I would do exactly what the politicians have done and that is to accept and go and see what the situation was like in South Africa for myself.” The Auckland Rugby Union’s chairman, Mr Ron Don, also refused to comment on sugggestions that he would leave for South Africa on Sunday.
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