LEAGUE TOUR TEAM
SLIGHT EXAGGERATIONS,
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. Some astonishing statements appear in an article in the latest files of the "Athletic News" by "Forward," who met the New Zealand League team at Southampton. He was told that among those labelled as "stars" was Dufty, the player acknowledged even in NewZealand as Nepia's superior." . It does not say who the informant was, but Mr. G. H. Ponder, financial manager, was responsible for two other gems"Defenco is a big asset of Rugby, and I can truly say that every back on the side is thoroughly sound in this important essential."
Mr. Fonder was asked if the League had invited any Rugby Union All Blacks over. "No," was the prompt reply, "for tho simple reason that we consider the players we have brought fully equal to any members of that team."
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 90, 13 October 1926, Page 12
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146LEAGUE TOUR TEAM Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 90, 13 October 1926, Page 12
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