1935–36 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain, Ireland and Canada
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Touring party

*Manager:
Vincent Meredith Sir Henry Vincent Meredith, 1st Baronet (February 28, 1850 – February 24, 1929), was a Canadian banker and philanthropist. He was president of the Bank of Montreal, the Royal Victoria Hospital and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. He was gove ...
*Assistant Manager: *Captain: Jack Manchester


Full-back

* Mike Gilbert (West Coast)


Three-quarters

* Nelson Ball (Wellington) * Henry Brown (Auckland) * George Hart (Canterbury) * Neville Mitchell (Southland) * Charlie Oliver (Canterbury)


Five-eighths

* Jack Griffiths (Wellington) *
Harcourt Caughey Sir Thomas Harcourt Clarke "Pat" Caughey (4 July 1911 – 4 August 1993) was a New Zealand rugby union player. Early life and family Born in Auckland in 1911, Caughey was the son of James Marsden Caughey, whose aunt, Marianne Smith (née Caug ...
(Auckland) *
Rusty Page James Russell "Rusty" Page (10 May 1908 – 22 May 1985) was a New Zealand army officer, and rugby union player and administrator. Early life and family Born in Dunedin in 1908, Page was the son of John and Helen Stuart Page (née Caradus). Fr ...
(Wellington) * Dave Solomon (Auckland) *
Eric Tindill Eric William Thomas Tindill (18 December 1910 – 1 August 2010) was a New Zealand sportsman. Tindill held a number of unique records: he was the oldest ever Test cricketer at the time of his death, the only person to play Tests for New Zeala ...
(Wellington)


Halfbacks

*
Merv Corner Mervyn Miles Nelson Corner (5 July 1908 – 3 February 1992) was a New Zealand rugby union player, sporting administrator, and bank executive. Biography Born in Auckland in 1908, Corner was educated at Auckland Grammar School. In 1938 he marr ...
(Auckland) * Joey Sadler (Wellington)


Forwards

* George Adkins (South Canterbury) * Jack Best (Marlborough) * Bill Collins (Hawke's Bay) * Douglas Dalton (Hawke's Bay) * William Edward Hadley (Auckland) *
John Hore John HoreAlternative spellings of Hore's surname include "Hoar" and "Hoare" (baptised 13 March 1680 – 12 April 1763Other sources give Hore's year of birth as 1690, and year of death as 1762) was an English engineer, best known for making the Ri ...
(Otago) * Ronald King (West Coast) * Arthur Lambourn (Wellington) * Atholstan Mahoney (Bush Districts) * Jack Manchester (Cantebury) * Rod MacKenzie (Manawatu) * Hubert McLean (Auckland) * Cyril Pepper (Auckland) * Tori Reid (Hawke's Bay) * Frederick Vorrath (Otago) *
James Wynyard James Gladwin Wynyard (17 August 1914 – 2 November 1942) was a New Zealand rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. O ...
(Waikato)


The matches


Scotland


Ireland


Wales

Wales:
Vivian Jenkins Vivian Gordon James "Viv" Jenkins (2 November 1911 – 5 January 2004) was a Welsh rugby union player who, having taught Classics and Games at Dover College, went on to have a successful career as a sports journalist. He won 14 caps for Wales an ...
(
London Welsh London Welsh Rugby Football Club ( cy, Clwb Rygbi Cymry Llundain) was a rugby union club formed in 1885. Based in Old Deer Park, Richmond-upon-Thames, London Welsh RFC played in the English Premiership in the 2012–13 and 2014–15 seaso ...
), Geoffrey Rees-Jones ( Oxford Univ.), Idwal Rees ( Swansea),
Claude Davey Claude Davey (14 December 1908 – 18 February 2001) was a Wales international rugby union player who played club rugby for several teams, most notably Sale and Swansea. He was awarded 23 caps for Wales and captained his country eight times. Dave ...
( Swansea) (capt.),
Wilf Wooller Wilfred Wooller (20 November 1912 – 10 March 1997) was a Welsh cricketer, rugby union footballer, cricket administrator and journalist. He was acclaimed as one of the greatest all-round sportsmen that Wales has ever produced. He captained G ...
( Cambridge Univ.), Cliff Jones ( Cambridge Univ.),
Haydn Tanner Haydn Tanner (9 January 1917 – 5 June 2009) was a Welsh international rugby union player who represented both Wales and the British and Irish Lions. At club level he played for several top-flight teams, including Bristol, Cardiff, Swansea, Lond ...
( Swansea), Tom Rees ( Newport),
Don Tarr Donald James Tarr (11 March 1910 – 4 June 1980) was a Welsh international hooker who played club rugby for Swansea and Cardiff, county rugby for Hampshire and invitational rugby for the Barbarians. Tarr was a career naval officer, reaching t ...
, ( Swansea), Harry Payne ( Swansea), Trevor Williams ( Cross Keys),
Eddie Watkins Eddie Watkins (2 March 1916 – 28 June 1995) was a Welsh dual-code international rugby player who played club rugby under the union code for Cardiff, and later professional league rugby with Wigan. As a union player Watkins was part of the 193 ...
(
Cardiff Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingd ...
), Glyn Prosser ( Neath), Jim Lang (
Llanelli Llanelli (" St Elli's Parish"; ) is a market town and the largest community in Carmarthenshire and the preserved county of Dyfed, Wales. It is located on the Loughor estuary north-west of Swansea and south-east of the county town, Carmarth ...
),
Arthur Rees Arthur Morgan Rees CBE, QPM, DL (20 November 1912 – 13 May 1998) was a Welsh international rugby union flanker, the Chief Constable of Denbighshire and later of Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent, a sports' administrator and World War II fighter ...
(
London Welsh London Welsh Rugby Football Club ( cy, Clwb Rygbi Cymry Llundain) was a rugby union club formed in 1885. Based in Old Deer Park, Richmond-upon-Thames, London Welsh RFC played in the English Premiership in the 2012–13 and 2014–15 seaso ...
)
New Zealand: G Gilbert, GF Hart, NA Mitchell, N Ball, CJ Oliver, JL Griffiths, BS Sadler, A Lambourn, WE Hadley, D Dalton, ST Reid, RR King, JE Manchester (capt.), A Mahoney, HF McLean


England


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1935–1936 Tour in Details

Film of the All Blacks playing in Vancouver BC January 25th 1936 at Brockton Oval in Stanley Park
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