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Northern Advocate, 17 June 1920, Page 4

A football team dressed to represent the Union Jack is probably rather hard to picture in the mental eye, but the effect was achieved at New Plymouth on Thursday. The Rugby Union must have jerseys for the provincial representatives to play their match in and recently some of the officials set out on a hunting expedition among the manufacturers to see what they could find. It is stated that they could secure only one kind of jersey in sufficient numbers, owing to the continued scarcity, so they abandoned all hope of turning out their men, lik e the zebra, in amber and black stripes, and plunged desperately in red, white, and blue. The North team on Thursday had the honour of first bringing the new jerseys before the public gaze and a great deal of admiring comment was heard. The colours were there in all th e vivid brightness of those wihieh are blended in the Empire's flag, the only difference being that the pattern consisted of horizontal stripes. The on e drawback was that the splendour of the jerseys so held the eye that it was often difficult to distinguish one player from another.