During the year a team was sent from the University of New Zealand to Sydney, there to play the Sydney University. This team included six Victoria College players, namely, Messrs. Curtayne, Brosnan, Faire, Quilliam, Ryan and Robertson. A considerable amount of anxiety was felt at the time of its departure as to whether the team was strong enough to make the tour— anxiety which in the members of the team was increased by the reference that more than one Australian speaker made to the high standard of Rugby Football attained to in New Zealand. So that it is with no little satisfaction that we look back on the result of the tour—2 wins and 1 loss—for whatever kind of football we may have played, we had at least accomplished the task we had been given to do. But the anxiety which we felt to do well was not without its beneficial effect, for each member of the team was eager to do his best, and consequently the team which took the field for the first match was well trained, eager and determined, though somewhat doubtful of success, a combination of mental and bodily fitness which will make any team dangerous. The result was that we won by 15 points to 10 after a game the result of which was in doubt to the call of time. That we won was largely due to the dash of our forwards, whose speed in breaking away from the serum and fast following up quite disconcerted the opposing backs. The day was beautifully warm and sunny, and the play fast, open and exciting.

The second game we also won by 9 points to 3. The backs played up much better in this game and had the forwards played with the dash that they showed in the page 62 first match the score would have been larger. The game was played in the rain and afforded a rather uninteresting display of football.

In the final match against the Metropolitan team, which was practically a New South Wales representative team), we lost by 22 points to 6. The Metropolitan team was undoubtedly the superior, but I think the score should have been a little more even. Our men were probably tired by too much gaiety, and the forwards especially did not seem to get going until late in both spells.

No description of the tour will be complete without a reference to the social side of the tour. For it is perhaps only on the social side that the team can be justified. And in this respect it was interesting to hear speakers refer to the future benefit which might accrue to their respective countries from this mingling together of the young men of the two colonies: "Young men," they said, "who perhaps sonic day would be the leading statesmen and merchants of their respective colonies."

Amongst those social functions which will perhaps live longest in the memories of the team is the reception held at the University itself and the inspection of the Colleges and College grounds which followed. How small and insignificant did our own University then appear. But perhaps the greatest contrast was between the social life as it exists at a University such as Sydney University, where there are residential colleges, and at a University such as our own, where the students see each other only at lectures or perhaps for five minutes before the lecture begins. More than one member of the team had to sigh with regret as he was conducted through St. Paul's Residential College, with regret that our own University had no such residential College, with regret that no such opportunity for knowing the students amongst whom he worked was open to him. There are three Residential Colleges attached to the Sydney University, each containing a large number of students.

This preliminary inspection of the Residential College prepared one in some manner for the display of student life which took place in the afternoon, when the students assembled at the sports ground for an afternoon's sport. The free, careless way they took their page 63 pleasure, their utter disregard for everything save the enjoyment of the hour, were to a New Zealand University student as Something undreamt of, but good to behold. To see a long line of students in the dirty, greasy overalls, swing down in one long line, their arms interlocked, their voices mingling in some College chant, to which they kept time as they marched, was a sight to make one wish to be among that jolly, happy-go-lucky lot. What a crowd for a capping carnival they would make; but, then, perhaps, they have no Sir Robert in Sydney.

In conclusion, we must say that it was with the greatest regret that we left Sydney, with regret that those friendships which had been born on the field and christened at Lindeman's, had now to be broken. But let us hope that next year will bring a few of our friends amongst us again, when we can wish them no better thing than that they may enjoy themselves, as well as we did in Sydney.