1921 All Black Captain Seriously 11l
[Special to “Northern Advocate" J WELLINGTON, This Day. As New Zealand prepares to meet another Springbok invasion, the man who captained the All Black side which met South Africa in the first and second tests in 1921, lies seriously ill at Hanmer. Ke is G. G. Aitken, New Zealand Rhodes scholar of 1920, Wellington and New Zealand centre, and a member of the famous “Flying Four,” of Scotland, when G. P. S. MacPherson, Ircnsmith, A. C. Wallace and G. G. Aitken made up the Scottish threequarter line.
Aitken was in poor health, and the man who was capped twice for New Zealand and eight times for Scotland, was forced to enter Hanmer Sanatorium because of lung trouble.
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Northern Advocate, 22 June 1937, Page 5
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