Mormon missionaries helped to improve coaching and player skills after the Second World War. Between 1946 and 1961 a Mormon team would play a New Zealand representative team at the end of the national men's tournament. The New Zealanders usually lost. This is the Mormon team in 1958.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Evening Post Collection (PAColl-0614)
Reference:
EP/1958/3084-F
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