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AUSTRALIAN BASKETBALL PLAYERS TO VISIT N.Z THIS YEAR

After a postponement for seven years. Australia will send a team of women basketball players to New Zealand this year. Plans for the visit were first made in 1938, when a team ot New Zealanders—the first to cross the Tasman—toured Australia. The date for the return visit was then fixed for 1940, but .with the outbreak of war, the trip was cancelled, state s the “Sydney Morning Herald.” Th e team, chosen from players who participated in the interstate carnival in Brisbane last year, includes four Victorians. It will b e captained by the Victorian defence player, Eunice Gill, holder of the all-Australia umpire badge. She is a teacher of physical education in tne Education Department. The team, which is leaving in August, will meet in Sydney for a week’s intensive practice before sailing for New Zealand.

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Wanganui Chronicle, 21 January 1947, Page 7

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AUSTRALIAN BASKETBALL PLAYERS TO VISIT N.Z THIS YEAR Wanganui Chronicle, 21 January 1947, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN BASKETBALL PLAYERS TO VISIT N.Z THIS YEAR Wanganui Chronicle, 21 January 1947, Page 7

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