INTERVIEW: TONY RUBIN [MANAGER HOLIDAY INN] re: Allegations of All Blacks that they were poisoned

Record ID: 893581

  • Title: INTERVIEW: TONY RUBIN [MANAGER HOLIDAY INN] re: Allegations of All Blacks that they were poisoned
  • Date: 22nd November 1996
  • Summary: INTERVIEW: TONY RUBIN [MANAGER HOLIDAY INN] re: Allegations of All Blacks that they were poisoned
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  • City: JOHANNESBURG
  • Country: South Africa
  • Reuters ID: 96NOV22R02
  • Story Text:INTERVIEW: TONY RUBIN [GENERAL MANAGER HOLIDAY INN] re: Accusation of All Blacks being deliberately food poisened

    01.22.49 EXTERIORS HOLIDAY INN
    01.25.03 TOURISTS AT ENTRANCE
    01.30.02 INTERVIEW: TONY RUBIN We have been told of these allegations & we cannot agree that the poisoning of the All Blacks rugby team occurred in this hotel or at the hands of a staff member emplyed by this hotel
    01.30.48 I have no idea who Susan is; the allegation or the notion that we had a Susan employed in this hotel, I have no record of any Susan or Suzy and I don't know where they got that information from. We certainly haven't got a Suzy.
    01.31.15 As a hotel and as a professionally run organization we take very seriously what we do and we certainly not either encourage or condone anyjthing like this. We don't know of a British gambling syndicate except what we've read in the newspaper; we have never been approached by a British gambling syndicate and...Suzy does not exist in our lives and never has.
    01.31.59 The truth is that the team was never poisoned in this hotel; I can tell you that when the team stayed here...we had the Irish team...SA team staying here...Australian team staying here...
    01.32.30 ...all the teams that stayed here were informed that if we as a hotel were to take responsibility for their well-being, they should eat their meals in this hotel...
    01.33.25 ...Susan never worked in this hotel, I don't know a Susan...don't know where they got that information...
    01.35.42 ...made a ruling in hotel...that the chefs & staff serving the All Black team would eat the same food...none of my chefs or staff got sick. It makes one think....
    01.36.15 NEVER BEEN APPROACHED BY AN INVESTIGATOR
    01.36.41 I must dismiss it outright because there is no truth to the story...
    01.37.55 ...no one was dismissed because no one confessed...
    01.38.57 AFTER ALL BLACKS LEFT FOUND IN ROOMS A CONCOCTION - SENT OFF FOR TESTS WHICH REVEALED THAT ANYBODY TAKING THE STUFF WOULD BECOME VERY SICK - SENT A LETTER TO MR MAINES - STILL WAITING FOR RESPONSE - EVEN ASKED TEAM DOCTOR TO SEND STOOL SAMPLES FOR TESTS TO FIND OUT WHAT IN FACT POISONED THE TEAM - STILL WAITING
    01.39.40 ...the allegations were being made without us been given any opportunity to either view the results of the stool tests...if in fact done...or we were also not given the opportunity of defending ourselves at the time...
    01.41.29 SET-UP SHOTS WITH FRANK
    01.42.18 FOYER OF HOTEL
    01.43.45 GV'S IN KITCHEN WITH CHEFS AT WORK
    01.48.26 DINING ROOM
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