BOYS' SOCCER
NEW ZEALAND TEAM RETURN FROM AUSTRALIA GREAT SUCCESS OF TOUR [BY TELEGRAPH—-PRESS ASSOCIATION] * WELLINGTON, Friday The New Zealand schoolboy Soccer team, which has been 'touring Australia, returned by the Maunganui today. The manager, Mr. .J. Y. Walls, in an interview, said the tour had been most successful in every way. The boys behaved splendidly and had been repeatedly complimented by tho parents of the boys with whom they were billeted. Mr. Walls said he felt sure that the educational value of the tour would bo considerable, apart altogether from tho useful experience of the game. The matches had all been most enjoyable and had been played in excellent spirit. There were no casualties, and a boy who contracted measles on the way to Australia recovered without tho infection spreading. Every opportunity was taken to see as much as possible of tho country. Tho boys were taken over the Melbourne Tramway Board's depot, big steel works in Newcastle, and down a coal mine at Cessnock, where they also visited vineyards.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23145, 17 September 1938, Page 20
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