TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND
FIJIAN RUGBY TEAM ARRIVES
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The fir^t' native Rugby football team ever to leave Fiji, comprising 22 players, arrived by the Monowai today to play a series of matches in New Zealand. The first will be at Rotorua on Wednesday against a Bay of Plenty Maori team. The itinerary includes a Test against the Maoris on September 16 at Hamilton. The co-managers, Messrs. J. B. K. Taylor and J. H. F. Wiley, said that the team expected to give a good account of itself. Weather conditions were not expected to make as much difference as might be thought, as the team had had the' experience of playing on wet grounds in Fiji.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 44, 21 August 1939, Page 3
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121TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 44, 21 August 1939, Page 3
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