FRIDAY & THE 13th.
SAILING DATE FOR ALL BLACKS NOT SUPERSTITIOUS, BUT (Special to the Times.) WELLINGTON, Fcfc. 10. The New Zealand Rugby Union is faced with the prospect of despatching the All Black team for South Africa'on Friday 13th April and is not very pleased with it. While the members of the controlling bodlv of Rugby in this country are not superstitious still they feel that they don’t desire to place the team, which is to upheld New Zealand’s name abroad under any posible handicap. The result is that the alternative date ‘of April 20th: has been suggested. April 20th is also a Friday, but it is net the 13th!
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10509, 13 February 1928, Page 2
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