In conversation with a “Southland Timos" reporter, Mr A. J. Geddes, manager of the All Black Rugby team which recently returned from Australia, gave some interesting sidelights on the team’s tour, and incidentally revealed one of the reasons why the New Zealanders had been so popular. While in Sydney the team heard of a small boy who, through an injury at football, had been confined to hospital and so deprived of any chance of seeing the All Blacks—an event he had been long awaiting. As a result the whole team visited him in hospital and kept thn little chap amused for over an hour, J leaving him perhaps the happiest and "V proudest boy in Australia.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 230, 11 September 1934, Page 4
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