RUGBY
SPRINGBOKS COMING RUGBY TOUR IN 1937, AIiSTKALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. 1 Per Press Association, j WELLINGTON, Dec. -I. I Advice is to hand from Capetown that the South African Rugby Football Board, at a recent inccling, decided tn accept the invitation to send a team on a joint visit to Australia and New Zealand in 1937. A rccomniondalion to I this effect had been made at. a confer once just prior to the Australian Rugby team's departure from South Africa, Dr. iMatthcws, manager of the A.uItalian team, having attended the conference and urged that the tour ul noth countries be undertaken. It is also reported that the uuaii'.mous opinion of all the South African Rugby Unions was that there .should be a live year interval before any furthei international fixtures, whether at home or oversias, as too many international fixtures interfered with club football, which was delinifoh tho most vital phase oi‘ the game fiom a South African point of view. Consideration was also given to the proposal that an Empire Rugby .football tournament be held in London. The report slates that it. is possible that. Sou-ji Africa might join in a tournam ?»»». a; suggested, provided that it was substitute; for the visit, to Australia mid New Zealand and that thereafter the live'r'ii interval was main
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 287, 5 December 1933, Page 7
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217RUGBY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 287, 5 December 1933, Page 7
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