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6 August 2014
From an interview Jonah did for the IRB's World of Rugby TV show.
"I didn't realise how much of an impact I had made on the rugby world until I had to go out and buy something in South Africa (during the Rugby World Cup) in 1995. I had to get security at the shopping mall near our hotel to get into the shop that I wanted to go to. Then I had to leave via the back stairwell to get back to my hotel.
And all I wanted to buy was a tube of toothpaste!
My whole life completely changed then. It was never the same after that - and it's still not mine now all these years later."
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Buller, Wellington, and Scotland
2 internationals for New Zealand 1921
8 internationals for Scotland 1924–29
One of a number of players to have played for more than one country, Aitken came from Buller in New Zealand’s South Island. He made his first-class debut as a teenager before the outbreak of World War I and resumed his career after the war.
Aitken’s debut for New Zealand in 1921 was in the first test against South Africa – the first game between the two countries.
Two years later Aitken, having been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, was in England studying at Oxford University. After becoming an Oxford rugby blue he won his first cap for Scotland in 1924. (He had Scottish parents.)
George Aitken was a centre of considerable speed and talent. He is perhaps best remembered in the rugby world as part of a very fast and dangerous Oxford University three-quarter line, all of whom joined him in the Scottish international team at various times.
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