ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.
THE CANADIAN TOUR. PRIME MINISTER’S INTEREST. (Pbb United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, December 9. The Secretary of the New Zealand Football Association states that a cablegram has been sent to the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates) in London advising him that the Canadian Football Association has agreed to send a team to tour New Zealand during next winter The New Zealand Council requests the Prime Minister to convey its greeting? to the Canadian Prime Minister and to assure him that the teani will receive an enthusiastic welcome, and to express the hope that the tour will help to cement the Imperial relationship. . , , A reply has now been received trom Mr Coates in which he states that ho has conveyed the contents of the cablegram to the Canadian Prime Minister. The New Zealand Council has arranged for the officials of the Canadian Football Association to interview Mr Coates on his way across the continent.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19969, 10 December 1926, Page 12
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