OVERSEAS RUGBY TOURS
JAPAN'S INVITATION [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, April 14. Reference to overseas tours which have been suggested in the near future was made by Mr Dean in an address to the Rugby Union. As tho result of a talk which the committee had with Mr Tandy, manager of tho Soulh African cricketers, who is also a member of the South African Board, it was hoped that South Africa would reconsider an invitation to tour New Zealand and Australia in 1934 or 1935. An invitation bad been received from the International Board for a New Zealand team to visit Great Britain in the 1936-37 season, and this lias been accepted, and during the tour matches would ho played against England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. In regard to the wish recently expressed by Japan through the Canadian Union for a New Zealand team to tour Japan it was for the delegates to say whether they should instruct the incoming committee to enter into negotiations for such a tour.
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Evening Star, Issue 21077, 14 April 1932, Page 6
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169OVERSEAS RUGBY TOURS Evening Star, Issue 21077, 14 April 1932, Page 6
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