ALL BLACKS' RETURN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22344, 15 February 1936, Page 14

ALL BLACKS' RETURN

ARRIVAL ON MONDAY CIVIC RECEPTION ARRANGED The All Black Rugby team, which recently completed a tour of Great Britain, Ireland and Canada, will arrive in Auckland from England by the Aorangi on Monday morning. The team was previously expected to arrive tomorrow evening, but the Aorangi is not now due until 6.30 a.m. on Monday. The Mayor, Mr. Ernest Davis, with whom will be associated several members of Parliament, will hold a civic reception in the concert chamber of the Town Hall on Monday at 12.15 p.m., and members of the general public are invited to attend. A complimentary luncheon will be tendered the team at Hotel Cargen at one o'clock. The president of the Auckland Rugby Union, Mr. H. Frost, will preside. The New Zealand Union will be represented by Mr. F. T. Glasgow, of Wellington, a member of the 1905 All Black team. Mr. Glasgow, who is acting-chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Union, will arrive in Auckland this morning.

AORANGI AT SUVA MANAGER ON THE TOUR SUVA, Feb. 14 Mr. V. R. Meredith, manager of the All Blacks team, stated tp-day on the arrival of the party by the Aorangi, that taken all round, the tour had been most successful. Football in Britain was certainly much improved, and that countrv had some fine players. Everyone the team met was most hospitable. The All Blacks had made many friends, and the relations between tho teams was most cordial throughout. The most exciting match was that with tho Welsh fifteen when fortunes see-sawed throughout. Tho matches in Canada were most eniovable.