RUGBY TOUR MEMENTO
KOALA FOR ALL BLACK'S SON
FIRST OF TEAM TO HAVE BOY
[by telegraph OWN correspondent] GREYMOUTH. Sunday
Just prior to the return to New Zealand from Australia of the All Black team in 1938, the president of the Australian Rugby Union, Mr. Gordon Shaw, presented to the manager of the All Blacks, Dr. G. J. Adams, of Wangnnui, an imitation koala bear, to he given to the first member of the team who was married alter the tour and who first became the father of a son. Quite a number of the members of the team have since married, even long before the captain, Mr. R. R. King, the West Coast lock, t-o whose lot the honour lias fallen, in that he was the father of the first boy to be born to any member of the team. Dr. Adams was notified of the recent happy event and has advised that the koala bear had been immediately forwarded. Ron King now resides at Greymouth.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23851, 30 December 1940, Page 9
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