TOURING FOOTBALLERS.
AUSTRALIANS ARRIVE TO-DAY
FIRST MATCH ON SATURDAY.
The Australian Rugby football team will arrive at Auckland by tho Ulimaroa this morning and will be welcomed on board by Mr. S. S. Dean, chairman of the management committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union, and by Mr. 11. Frost, chairman of the management committee of the Auckland Rugby UnioJi. The team will be . given a civic reception by the Mavor, Mr. G. W. Hutchison, at the Town Hall at 12 o'clock to-day, and will train at Eden Park later in the afternoon. There are 26 players in the party, which will leave for the South this evening and open the tour with a match against Otago next Saturday.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20954, 18 August 1931, Page 8
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