 I found them everywhere very kind and attentive and apparently anxious to make one's visit as pleasant as possible".The term "private individuals" may have been used to exclude from praise both the RFU and London press.Following the tour he also criticised the partiality of the English referees, and believed that the English administrators displayed a double standard in their treatment of the Natives; the RFU treated the Native team's motives for touring with suspicion, believing the enterprise to be speculative and criticising them for not upholding the amateur principles the RFU liked to espouse.