CONDUCT IN HOTEL
SOUTHLAND PROTEST TOURING RUGBY SIDE (P.A.) INVERCARGILL, Aug. 22. A complaint concerning the conduct of some members of the North Auckland Rugby team during the last night of (heir stay in Invercargill was received at a meeting of the Invercargill Licensing Trust from the manager of the Grand Hotel. The chairman of the trust, Mr. H. Ritchie, said the trust had always endeavoured to give the best accommodation available to visiting football teams. This Was the second occasion on which damage had been done in a trust hotel by members of such teams.
A number of members of the North Auckland team had returned to the Grand Hotel in the early hours of the morning and had opened oysters and eaten mutton birds in the bedrooms, leaving the remains strewn about the rooms.
Mr. Ritchie added that he wished to make it clear that the conduct of the Auckland team had been exemplary. The trust decided to write to the North Auckland Rugby Union and also to the Now Zealand Union concerning the conduct of certain members of the North Auckland team and also concerning the need for better behaviour on the part of touring teams.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22416, 25 August 1947, Page 6
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