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What is the name of the 1954 report into ‘juvenile delinquency’?

Other than the second match against Waikato what other game was cancelled for security reasons during the 1981 Springbok Tour?

Which National Party politician wrote to Ces Blazey, the NZRFU chairman, that the tour would be seen as condoning apartheid and would affect ‘how New Zealand is judged in the international arena’?

True or false - Ben Couch, the minister of police in 1981, was an ex- All Black?

How much was it estimated that the police spent on 'Operation Rugby'?