SOUTH AFRICANS COMING TO N.Z.

Grey River Argus, 24 May 1947, Page 6

SOUTH AFRICANS COMING TO N.Z.

The South African soccer team now in Australia will definitely visit New Zealand next month to play eight or nine matches. A cablegram offering a tour of four and a-half weeks was received yesterday by the N.Z.F’.A. which announced to-day that some details had yet to be fixed but the tourists would arrive in /Auckland on June IS. The first match would be played there on June 21. The tentative further programme provides for three tests, one each in Auckland and Wellington and the other in the South Island .with probably a match against the New Zealand eleven in the South Island. S. AFRICANS’ N.Z. TOUR

WELLINGTON, May 23

The following itinerary has s been drawn up for the tour of New Zealand by the South African Association football team: — June 21—v. Auckland at Auckland. June 25—v. Wellington at Wellington. June 28—v. New Zealand XI, at Christchurch. July 2—v. Otago, at Dunedin. July s—First Test at Dunedin. July 9—v. Canterbury, at Christchurch. July 12—Second Test, at Wellington. July 19—Third Test, at Auckland. The South African team may visit Rotorua between the second and third Tests.