Tongan Visit on Again!
pp. 121-122 · Read in the full issue
AN invitation to send a team to Tonga has been accepted by the Australian Rugby Union, and a tentative programme of five
matches agreed upon. Nineteen players and a manager, who will pay their own travelling costs of about £l5O each, will leave Sydney on September 7, and return on September 23.
The Tongan Rugby Union has undertaken to provide accommo dation and entertainment.
The Australian team will be about Sydney first-grade club standard, Sydney officials said they were keen to build up the strength of the game in Tonga. Union was booming in Japan, which had in vited an Australian university team to visit there next year. If the strength of the game could be built up in Japan and Tonga there
would be a strong Pacific zone for Australia. New Zealand and Fiji. <ln June the NSW Union said there would be no visit to Tonga this year; it would cost too much.)