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The Rugby League
Fix this textNews.
Fix this text4 Journal devoted to the interests of Rugby League Football, and containing the
Fix this textonly authorised List of Names, Numbers , Colors and Positions of Players .
Fix this textPublished by the N.S.W. Rugby Football League at their Office, 165 Phillip Street, Sydney, N.S.W.
Fix this textVol. 3 -No. 7
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Fix this textSYDNEY, JUNE sth, 1922
Fix this textPrice—Threepence
Fix this textA Lesson to be Learned by our
Fix this textNew Zealand Friends.
Fix this textAs Rugby in New Zealand is now
Fix this textin the throes of an upheaval similar
Fix this textto the one that brought into being
Fix this textthat'great organisation—the N.S.W.
Fix this textRugby Football League and our
Fix this textfriends across the Tasman are hav-
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Fix this textthe thirteen-a-side code by its op-
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Fix this textstop at nothing to attain their ob-
Fix this textject, the following will give some
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Fix this textprevailed in this State: —
Fix this textThe accusation was freely made
Fix this textthen as to-day that the League was
Fix this textoriginally formed by a band of “mal-
Fix this textcontents” (as we were told by one
Fix this textleading Union official) in the latter
Fix this textpart of 1907 to play against Basker-
Fix this textville’s team of All Blacks, then on
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Fix this textThe original meetings were held
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Fix this textstealthy manner that members ap-
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Fix this textwas at Bateman’s Hotel, George-
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Fix this textfeelings of great glee at the pros-
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Fix this textMeetings were subsequently held
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Fix this textWell, as all things must come to
Fix this textan end, so did the series of
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Fix this textplayers of those games, who were
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Fix this textTime wore on, and all through
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