Will Ban Be Lifted?
There is a chance—just a chance — that the Australian Rugby Union lean to tour Great Britain next year ma;, play matches in France. A move to sjive France back her place in the international Rugby Union programme—a place that has for seven years ibein denied her by England, Scotland, Ire-
! --md and Wales —has been made. France was banned in 1931; found guilty of permitting professional tac„ic,3. The French authorities applied for readmittance to the illustrious circle on several occasions, only to e rebuffed. France now insists that she has cleaned her house, and reports are that Wales would like to resume fixtures with France, and that England would do so if Ireland and Scotland agreed. Something may come out "I it.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19827, 3 January 1939, Page 10
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