OTAGO ALL BLACKS WILL DISSOLVE LONG ASSOCIATION
CAPE TOWN, September 20 (Rec. 10.15 a.m.)'.—When lan Botting-sails from Cape Town for England bn Friday to continue his theological studies at Oxford, .and Ron Elvidge legyes with the rest of the team on the Dp? minion Monarch for New ' Zealgpd, two firm friends will be dissolving a Rugby association that started. Sin their schooldays. They attended--the same school and played for the first team together. The war separated them foi- a period, but they have both played for the Otago University, Otago and now for the All. Blacks; They have'been inseparable: friends and usually shared the same room on this tour, and invariably were paired in accepting the boundless hospitality extended to players by the/:South Africans. . ' ■'-w/;It is expected that Botting, .whose experiences on this tour 'included valuable assistance in the press box during all four tests, will bein-Engt' land for three or four, years.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 September 1949, Page 5
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