RUGBY TOUR

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 58, 6 September 1945, Page 8

RUGBY TOUR

2ND N.Z.E.F. TEAM

MATCHES IN BRITAIN

The Minister of Defence (Mr. Jones) announced today that approval had been given to General Freyberg to accept an invitation from Service and Rugby authorities in the United Kingdom for a team from the 2nd N.Z.E.F. to tour EJngland, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Tentative arrangements' have been made for matches against teams from the Navy, Army, and Air Force, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, London hospitals, and certain Welsh, Scottish, arid" English county teams. In addition there will be international fix- ' tures against England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and the possibility ".. of-.extending the tour to France and — Germany for games against the French . army, Paris University, and- the British Liberation...Army is also being considered. When definitely settled ' the list of matches will be announced. The tour will be under the auspices of the British Army Sports Control Board and the British Rugby Unions, and detailed arrangements will be in . the hands of the Inter-Services Rugby Football Committee with which New Zealand representatives will be associated. Brigadier R. S. Park, New Zealand Military Liaison Officer at New Zealand House in London, will be the principal New Zealand representative on the committee.' and Lieutenant- • Colonel A. H. a well-known : New "Zealand infer-island and provin- • cial player andvpresident'of the divi- ; aiohal Rugby committee, is-to be man- ■ sger^of the team.' . . ; V.'v The general financial arrangements for; the tour are being guaranteed by ; the.New Zealand Government, but it is expected that the expenses will be met lr,6m gate money and any surplus proceeds will be devoted to charity. Mr. Jones said that there had been great enthusiasm within the 2nd Division for a team to tour the United j Kingdom, and there was no doubt that now that the arrangements had been concluded the best team available '.. would, be selected to uphold the tradi- /'■• tions of New Zealand Rugby. i • MUST DYE THEIR UNIFORMS Rec. '9 a.m. LONDON. Sept. 5. Field-Marshal. Montgomery has issuad an order making it an offence for ciyil'rns in f.he British zone to wesr -fl.°ld "ry or military insignia ax*"" S~c'T".'^r 0. D'^b""^"' --<:rv?~r? rf th^ 'German army srn r *T" "i '""''l November ;30 to a^anirr? ci'-T-n r^th'n" "have"their up if cut—. -'•■ -\ T/-.-'.v> v ,-'-,ji-, thay, roust, r^rnov ~'l b"^'Tcp. decorations, fcutt."-c. -•-•■ ~i-~,,,Vo r _~t T ~r:--. Luxemburg radio stated that the L"una wr-kr. ths largest synthetic oil plrnt in C-^-many. had resumed pror 1!!" ion Fifteen thousand workers '. « n rriployed. though one-third r* I'"1"1 rj'vnt VV pc" hy Allied -'"air"attacks. ■• "