Slack defends visit
NZPA-AAP Brisbane The Australian rugby captain, Andrew Slack, denied yesterday that his recent visit to South Africa was an attempt to pave the way for a Wallaby tour. “It was nothing more than a free holiday for my wife and I,” said Slack who returned home on Monday. After Australia’s triumph in New Zealand last winter
Slack and the Wallaby coach, Mr Alan Jones, spoke strongly in support of an official tour of South Africa, at present banned by the Australian Government. “I made no official contact with rugby authorities in South Africa,” Slack said. While South Africans were hoping for a Wallaby tour they had doubts it would ever eventuate, he said.
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Press, 17 December 1986, Page 38
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