ALL BLACKS FETED
WELCOME FROM RUGBY UNION. DOMINION’S TRUE SPORTSMANSHIP. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright, London, Sept. 4. Mr. Greenwood, president of the Rugby Union, in welcoming the AIL Blacks at a Sportsmen’s Club luncheon at the Savoy, declared that the union regarded it a sacred trust to preserve the game for those able to play only on Saturday afternoons. It did not cater for the leisured, classes and did not allow anyone to make a profit from games. Lord Bledisloe declared that no country was so permeated with the spirit of true sportsmanship as New Zealand. The Trocadero restaurant resembled a Twickenham football ground at a dinner tc the All Blacks. The tourists passed through turnstiles to reach the tables, which were constructed to resemble grandstands overlooking imitation grass. The menus were in the shape of Rugby footballs annd the waiters wore the colours of England and of the All Blacks.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 September 1935, Page 5
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