NEW ZEALAND RUGBY TEAM
» — TO-MORROW’S EXHIBITION MATCH The New Zealand Rugby team will leave on Friday next by the Marama for South Africa, where they are to contest the Rugby supremacy of the world with the Springboks. Followers of the game will welcome the opportunity of seeing the All Blacks in action in the exhibition match at Athletic Park to-morrow afternoon in aid of the fund to send the New Zealand team to the Olympic Games this vear. If the weather behaves itself, some most attractive football should be witnessed, as the teams are well matched, and comprise the flower of New Zealand Rugby A civic farewell will be tendered to the New Zealanders bv the Mayor of Wellington (Mr. G. A. Troup) at the Town Hall on Thursday afternoon, the team will be entertained at dinner by the New Zealand Rngbv Union at the Grand Hotel to-morrow night, and a ball will lie held in their honour at the Town Hall to-morrow night.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 163, 10 April 1928, Page 6
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164NEW ZEALAND RUGBY TEAM Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 163, 10 April 1928, Page 6
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