Australian Team To Tour Dominion
Rugby
SYDNEY, Tue.—The selectors last night chose the following Rugby Union team to tour New Zealand in August and September;— Fullback: B. Piper (NSW).
Threequarters: A. Ware (Queensland), R. Garner (NSW), J. Fogarty (Queensland), T. Allan (NSW), captain, J. Solomon (NSW), J. Bromley (NSW), C. Davis (NSW).
Five-eighths: N. Emery (NSW), E. Broad (Queensland). Halfbacks: 'C. Burke (NSW), R. Cavysey (NSW). Forwards: J. Baxter, D. Brockhoff. B. Wilson, R. Cornforth, K. Cross, K. Gordon, R. Mossop, N. Shehadie, C. Windon (vice-captain), D. Furness (NSW), N. Cottrell, F. McCarthy, M. Betts (Queensland). The Australians will arrive in Auckland on August 15 and will open their tour by playing King Country at Taumarunui on August 17. The team altogether will play 12 matches, including two tests, the first at Wellington on September 3 and the second at Auckland on September 24. The All Black team for the first test will be chosen in mid-August.
Provided assistance can be given by the New Zealand National Film Unit. ,T. Arthur Rank Organisation will send a party to New Zealand toward the end of this year to make a documentary film about the Dominion. The film will be distributed in the "This Modern Age” series, which is the British equivalent to the American "March of Time.”
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Northern Advocate, 2 August 1949, Page 7
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