LEAGUE TEAM LEAVES
TOUR OF AUSTRALIA PRESIDENT CONFIDENT Press Association WELLINGTON, Friday. The Xew Zealand League football team sailed by the Ulimaroa for Sydney today and will play the first match of its tour against Xew South Wales at Sydney on July 5. At the farewell function before the team left Mr. C. Snedden, president of the Xew Zealand League Council, extended to the team his good wishes for its success. lie said this was the 21st year since the establishment of the game in the Dominion, and the team had an important trust to fulfil. The team symbolised youth and progress, backed by experience. Mr. A. Fergusson, one of the managers, had been prominently connected with the code since its inception and his colleague, Mr. W. J. Taylor, was the youngest member of the Xew Zealand Council and well able to share the responsibilities. League football had survived on its merits all the knocks it had received.
“We have every confidence,” conc* 1 d Mr. Snedden, “that, win or lose, 4 vlll perform well and justify the Cu. exercised in the selection of the team.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1010, 28 June 1930, Page 10
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