SOUTH AFRICAN RUGBY
STANDARD EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD (United Press Association I AUCKLAND, This Bay. The opinion that the All Blacks next season when they toured South Africa would find the African standard of play exceptionally good, was expressed by Lord A. P. de \ illiers, a passenger by the Maunganui who expects to make a short stay ill New Zealand. He added that the South African people were looking forward to the New Zealand visit. When he left the Rugby season had just started with evidence of remarkable keenness. The visitor, who is aged 28 years, succeed, el to the title in 1934. He. was educated at Oxford University and is a large landowner in South Africa.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 28 August 1939, Page 6
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