Australian Varsity Rugby Team To Visit N.Z. Next Year
WELLINGTON, Last Night (P.A.) —Subject to the approval ol the New South Wales Rugby Union, the Australian Universities Rugby team is to visit New Zealand during the May vacation in 1949. Advhv to this effect was received by the executive of the New Zealand Rugby Union from the New Zealand University Rugby Football Council, which also notified that the itinerary would be drawn up when the dates and ports of arrival of shins about that time of the year were known. The visit was approved subject to a copy of the itinerary being received as soon as possible. The N.S.W. Union advised that the match against Toowoomba at Toowoomba had been eliminated from the itinerary for the New Zealand Maori team’s tour next year. This would reduce the number of games to two weekly. Following the recommendation of the council of (he N Z.R.U. at its last meeting, the executive decided to recommend players to take dinner suits on the tour of South Africa.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 30 November 1948, Page 4
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