Better Bring Your Own, Boys!
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Australian Rugby union enthusiasts are already prepar ing for the 1954 tour of the Fijian footballers, due to start about May.
The Fijian team which paid a visit to NSW and Brisbane a couple of years ago, was tremendously popular and Australians have not forgotten the boost they gave to amateur sport.
Neither have they forgotten the appetites of the Fijians. The NSW Rugby Union has already set aside £3OO in a “milk and fruit” fund which they will distribute to the hotels where the Fijians stop dur ing the tour, to enable the pro prietors to buy these extras.
When this fund was started, it was explained that it had cost the Union £43 in one week during the last tour to provide these items and that Fijians eat an enormous quantity of bananas.
The disastrous cyclone that lashed Queensland and NSW in February ruined most of the banana planta tions and it is expected that bananas will be in very short supply, if not off the market altogether, for the next 12 months. So it might be as well if the Fijians brought some of their own.