TWENTY-SIX YEARS AGO
ALL BLACK WANTS BLAZER [Per United Pkess Association.] WELLINGTON, September 13. After a lapse of twenty-six years a former -All Black footballer, W. J. Reedy, of Wellington, wrote fo the New Zealand Rugby Union asking to he supplied with a blazer which be claimed was due to him as the result of his having represented New Zealand against the Anglo-Welsh team which toured here in 1908. The union declined to accede to the request. Mr Reedy said that, although he was measured for a blazer, for some reason he failed to • receive it. Although twenty-six years had elapsed, he hoped that it would bo possible to grant him Iho honour of wearing the New Zealand Rugby blazer. The Chairman of the Management Committee (Mr S. S. Dean) said that, ns far as he was aware, the first time blazers were issued was in 1921. If he remembered correctly, caps only were given to representative players before that date.
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Evening Star, Issue 21824, 13 September 1934, Page 4
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