JUBILEE YEAR
I WANGANUI RUGBY UNION j BIG PROGRAMME PLANNED Next vear will be the jubilee year of the Wanganui Rugby Union and arrangements ai p, to be made for a big programme during the season. The Wanganui Rugby Union was formed in 1887 but organised matches had been in progress in the city for many years previously. Rugby had it? birth in the city in the days when garrisons of soldiers were stationed here for the protection of the township, and Wanganui claims to be one of the oldest Rugby centres in New Zealand. There are a number of Rugby unions in the Dominion that have already celebrated their jubilee but in many cases organised Rugby was in progress in this centre many years before.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19360430.2.25
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 101, 30 April 1936, Page 6
Word Count
126JUBILEE YEAR Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 101, 30 April 1936, Page 6
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in