RUGBY AND WAR
GAME TO GO ON MANY LOSSES EXPECTED ENCOURAGING YOUNG PLAYERS i “It is the wish of the New Zealand Rugby Union that the game should gG on in spite of the outbreak of war J and the Wanganui Union will do its ijob in fostering the game,” declared : Dr. G. J. Adams, chairman of the (.Management Committee of the Wan I ganui Rugby Union, after a Rugby I Him had been screened for the benefit of club oliicials. i Dr. Adams said that one of the 'reasons the union had bought film . was to encourage players who would . have to till up the gaps caused by the enlistment of older members. He expected that the code would lose many valuable young men because of the war.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 16, 19 January 1940, Page 4
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129RUGBY AND WAR Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 16, 19 January 1940, Page 4
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