THE NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.
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Received November 18, 10.0 a.m. SYDNEY, November 18. The New South Wales Rugby Unioa has oaibled to High Commissioner Reeves, asking faim to convey to the? New Zealand footballers its congratulations on t!he team's brilliant record, and the Union's best wishes in to-day's match.
The " Daily Telegraph," in an appreciative article on the team, concludes as follows:—" .For the present, the colonial physique and Jhealth are so superbly good that they testify with comforting, eloquence to; the betterment of the transplanted and blended Britisher and the steadfast progress of our wonderful Empire, viewed in its character of - representativeness. Therefore, the circumstance that itihe New Zealand •footballers have won so many matches, and" so easily, which «s ©thefrwis© interestingrather than important, is seen to involve a great historical a&d ethnological fact."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12657, 20 November 1905, Page 5
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