Officials err
NZPA staff correspondent Perth Red-faced Victorian Rugby Union officials have hastily changed accommodation arrangements for the All Black rugby team in Melbourne next week after finding that the team had been booked into a hotel in the city’s red light district. Local pressmen informed officials of their blunder recently in articles which received wide coverage in newspapers. The Victorian union quickly realised the error
and moved the team from its original hotel in the suburb of St K.lda to alternative accommodation in a more salubrious area. The New Zealand manager, Dick Littlejohn, pointed out yesterday that his team had had nothing to do with the shift. The All Blacks had stayed in the same hotel in 1980, apparently unaware of their raunchy surroundings, and had found it quite comfortable, he said. The tourists are due to play a Victorian state XV in Melbourne on Tuesday.
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