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“The team’s Chief Trainer, Yury Nikolayev, will now be assisted in his work by 46-year old Sean Patrick Carter, a former New Zealand league player who is now one of the trainers working in the Canterbury Rugby Union system. Carter will be responsible for training the Krasnyi Yar first team and rugby school in the city", TASS was told today by Sergey Chuprov, Chairman of the Krasnoyarsk club. The agreement between the Krasnyi Yar rugby club and New Zealand’s Canterbury Province envisages the exchange of training experience and also regular reciprocal working visits by specialists from each party. Source: ITAR-TASS, Prior Group Note: Krasnoyarsk is considered a stronghold of rugby union in Russia. Two Krasnoyarsk clubs, Krasny Yar and Enisei-STM, participate in the national Professional Rugby League. Matches are covered by local media, and the intra-city derby match between Krasny Yar and Enisei-STM can attract large crowds. Many players of the Russian national rugby team hail from the area. Source: Wikipedia |
A specialist from New Zealand has been added to the training management team of the Krasnyi Yar rugby club from Krasnoyarsk. The decision to name a new trainer was taken as a result of the signature of a three year cooperation agreement between the Krasnyi Yar rugby club and New Zealand’s Canterbury Province.
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Lieut. -Colonel H. C. Barclay, M.D., of Timaru, writing to the Christchurch Sun, says: — Arriving in Petrograd, after a tedious 22 days journey from Japan, I was anxious to waste no time, but to get to the front. At that time no reverses had be fallen the English or French troops, and the idea of my commission leading to an appointment in England among the army that was to be recruited had not occurred to me, and so I promptly offered myself as an army surgeon to the Russians, and was accepted as an operating surgeon, though of the language I knew nothing. Still, if they were game to take me, I was game to go. During the ten days of waiting I had some interesting, if not exciting, personal expediences. I had the honor of being, presented to the Empress - that is, the Dowager Empress, the mother of the present Tsar. It was at one of the summer palaces on the island of the Neva, on the borders of Petrograd. After some formal introduction to a baroness and one of the Princesses, the Empress came in. She was attired in black with a plain white collar and a pearl necklace, her hair dressed in ordinary English fashion. There was no difficulty in seeing at once the likeness to Queen Alexandra, whose sister she is, but she was not as tall, nor as impressive in appearanpe as I understand the late Queen of England to be. She was exceedingly gracious in manner and in speech, and spoke English like an English lady would. Among other things, she expressed her pleasure at seeing an Englishman with her troops, and when she spoke of the Anglo-Russian alliance, the emotion behind the words was plainly visible to me. A TALISMAN. When I said that while with her countrymen I hoped to do my duty faithfully and well she slipped a little present into my hand, saying, -"Keep this for my sake, and may it protect you." Then her Majesty looked me very straight in the face and paused - her eyes were moist “Thank God for the English alliance," – she said and raising her hand to my lips I kissed it, bowed, and she passed out. It needed no keen observer to be aware of the feeling at the back of words in themselves so simple. Needless, to say, the little gift was of the nature of an amulet, a religious token to be worn round the neck. Of her interest in my reasons for being in Russia at the time, and of her questions about New Zealand and Australia I need not write. |
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