New Zealand.
The first New Zealand touring side to travel abroad went to New South Wales in 1884 and won all 8 games. The first New Zealand touring side under the auspices of the New Zealand RFU, visited New South Wales & Queensland, Australia in 1893. The first New Zealand representative rugby team to tour beyond Australia were called "The Natives", they played their first game in Britain on 3 October 1888. The Natives had originally been called New Zealand Maoris . They were first nicknamed the All Blacks in a UK tour in 1905 when a journalist in Devon, England referred to the team in their new colours where the shorts and shirts were black (prior to this the shorts were navy blue).
The first New Zealand representative rugby team to tour beyond Australia were called "The Natives back in 1888
The Natives had originally been called New Zealand Maoris However, the first New Zealand representative rugby team to tour beyond Australia were called "The Natives", they played their first game in Britain on 3 October 1888. The team were not at that time fully represented as only 3 of 4 regions opted to put forward players.
natives of new zealand are maoris....they call there land Aotearoa
New Zealand celebrates the New Year ahead of Australia.
No records exist regarding when Australia was first "discovered" by its indigenous people, whilst records concerning the Polynesians and Maori of New Zealand are not necessarily based on fact. It is likely, however, that Aborigines were in Australia long before any races were on New Zealand. Regarding discovery by Europeans explorers, to our knowledge, the Australian continent was discovered by Europeans, specifically Portuguese explorers, before New Zealand.
the Maori
The Maori are the indigenous people of New Zealand.
i lived in new zealand for 12 years and then moved to Australia. the Australian dollar is worth more than the new zealand dollar. new zealand has much more hills/ mountains because it is on a faultline (earthquakes) and Australia is not. Julia gillard is Australia's first female prime minister. new zealand had a female prime minister, Helen clark, years ago. New zealand is about the length of the Northern Territory in Australia. Australia is enormous compared to new zealand new zealand only have regions, not states, as Australia do in new zealand they call FLIP FLOPS or THONGS jandles. there are alot of slang differences in Australia and new zealand in new zealand they say burger king. in Australia it is hungry jacks.
That was the 1920 Games in Antwerp when Australia and New Zealand first competed as separate nations.
First of all, New Zealand did not fight in PNG, secondly the Fuzzie Wuzzie Angels were not New Zealand but natives of PNG which was a colony of Australia. Thirdly, it is unknown how many died in the campaign but the angels were not soldiers but rather hospital field stretchers.