Mr W. Jul! ia now selling tonißtoes anl encumbers at his glßss houses, at the roar of Dr Zobel'B residence. Some amusing reminiscences, as well as a first-class sporting records have been brought back from America by the All Blacks. A few of them were referred to at the official reception by (he manager, Mr Mason. On ore oennpjon an American scorer was iMittmit up tlu' records of a match and instead of "New Zealand" he wrote "Australia." When the error waa point I'd out bo asked with a gaze: ' Hut. in it not one and the same thing?" At another match Home '-ppctatorfl \v!i>> evidently desired to le on the vvinnini; eid" were calling out, "Go on, Kangaroos." Some of the American tK'\vnpnp?rß were hopeleßßly at sea ia ree.nrd to their place of origin, for they variously labelled them BB bavinc eome from the South Sea l:a!ri(lc. Australia, and bo on. How,'\'.'i-, said Mr MBBon. before the uur came to an end the supporters of football in America bad come to I know that New Zealand was a counI t.rv apart, and a country of importI ance at that.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 631, 31 December 1913, Page 5
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