Page Out of Edinburgh Test
ALL BLACKS AT CENOTAPH LONDON, Nov. 11. There is no hope of Page playing tor the New Zealand Rugby football team against Scotland as he is still suffering from hi? leg injury. The team attended the Armistice Day service at the Cenotaph to-day. Some watched the ceremony rrom the windows of the Dominion Office, and others were perched on the I'oot-wHlc wall. All had a great view. After the ceremony the manager (Air. V". K. Mere dith) placed a wreath on the Cenotaph. The captain (J. E. Manchester) said: "It was the most impressive and most interesting service I nave ever witnessed." During the two-minutes' silence two women immediately in front of the footballers burst into tears and collapsed. in the afternoon the team visiteu Lloyds and the Tower of London. The players are to go to Cambridge on Tuesday and regret that they win be unable to attend the light at Wembley between Maurice Strickland (.New Zealand) and Tommy Loughran (U.S.A.). I Fifty specially printed Christmas cards nave been given to each player to send to relatives and friends.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 November 1935, Page 8
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