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End of Group 9 tour of northern NSW.

At Tumut Racecourse Ground

At Tumut Racecourse Ground

At Young Showground. The South-West League team consisted of players from the South Western Competition: Laurie Ward (Harden-Murrumburrah), Arnie Small (Galong), M. Elliott (Cowra), Leo 'Curly' Joyce (Young), Elwyn Battye (Cowra), Jack Thompson…

At Young Cricket Ground

At Young Cricket Ground

At the end of the 1932 season a Group 9 representative team toured the north of the State and played two matches in Sydney; against South Sydney and Western Suburbs.

My attempt to identify players is as follows:

Back from left: Albert Worthing…

PIC/15611/1-18002 LOC Cold store-Fairfax archive of glass plate negatives [picture]/Two men holding onto tarpaulins over railway trucks, New South Wales, 12 September 1932 [picture].


PIC/15611/1-18002 LOC Cold store-Fairfax archive of glass…

Billy Sheahan during the Tin Hare Inquiry July 1932.

Sheahan (1895-1975) was the NSW member for Yass and Burrinjuck from 1941 to 1965. A staunch promoter of rugby league football in the southqwest and particularly at Gundagai.

This picture…

The NSWRL forced Group 9 to play its 20 July match against the English (under the Riverina banner) at Wagga, when they wanted the venue to be Cootamundra, Young, Temora, or Murrumburrah – anywhere but Wagga. The Group were told that they had to both…