Dateline 09-09-09 was celebrated with particular significance in New Zealand today, marking exactly two years out from the opening game of Rugby World Cup 2011.
New Zealand’s world-first national rugby museum will be relocated and upgraded in time for the huge influx of rugby fans expected for the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
Thirteen host towns and cities in different New Zealand regions will help fill the 'stadium of four million' promised by the New Zealand Rugby Union for the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
The relationship between New Zealand and France is as long as it is deep. For nearly a century these two countries have shared a history – much of it bloody, some of it bitter and some so undeniably profound.