The New Zealand Rugby Union is handing out caps for former test players who did not receive them between the end of World War 2 and 1997.
It is carrying out ceremonies throughout New Zealand to hand out the caps and after visiting Dunedin and Wellington, it is now the turn of Christchurch, where 32 players will be given caps.
NZRU chairman Jock Hobbs will make a special trip to a Halswell retirement home tomorrow afternoon to present a cap to former Otago fullback Rex Orr.
Orr (85) played his sole test for New Zealand in 1949 in Wellington against Australia.
Former Otago first five-eighth Robin Archer will receive his cap.
He made his test debut against Australia in Wellington in 1955.
No 8 Gary Seear, who made his test debut against France in Toulouse in 1977, and winger Bruce Hunter, who debuted in the first test against the Lions in Dunedin in 1971, will also receive caps.
The family of the late Bill Meates will also accept a cap.
Meates, a winger, made his test debut against South Africa at Johannesburg in 1949.
Former Southland fullback Brian McKechnie will also receive his cap.
His test debut came in the same game as Seear.
The official ceremony coincides with a 50th anniversary gathering of those All Blacks and Canterbury representatives who played the Lions in 1959.
