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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9207, 9 April 1938, Page 3

The visit of the South African touring team in New Zealand is editorially referred to as follows in the 193 S Rugby Almanack, of New Zealand, as follows: “Our visitors came, and played and conquered, and they went back to their homeland with a proud record. They must rate veiy high among the strong sides of the past. The South Africans developed a style of game calculated to defeat New Zealand. Their type of play was unusual to South African Rugby as we had previously known it, but learning and developing as they played each game, they made themselves unbeatable under the conditions existing. On the other hand, we were disappointed in the standard revealed by our own players, and without wishing to detract from our visitors’ fine performances, we feel their path was made easy by the very feeble efforts of some of the supposed strong sides. We were particularly disappointed in the result of the selectors’ deliberations. . . In our opinion, wc possessed much better players Ilian the selectors preferred in several of the positions.”