Fijian Footballers For
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Australia
A FIJIAN Rugby Union team will play eight games in NSW and Queensland next winter and will probably receive 20 per cent, of the profits.
They will be the first Fijian foot ballers to play in Australia and it will be the first time that the Fijian Union will have any share of the profits of a tour. Union prac tice is for the home country to pay all expenses of a touring team and to keep all profits. NSW Union has made the suggestion that pro fits should be shared—on the principle that the stronger Union should help the weaker.
A Fijian Union team toured New Zealand in 1951 and had a spectacu lar success for its bright football and for the popularity of team members.
In Australia Rugby League is a much more popular branch of the sport than Rugby Union.