A national championship for club teams was introduced in 1991 in the form of a tournament over the June long weekend.

[7] During 1993, two women's teams from Australia, the Woden Valley Rams and a club based in Waverton, New South Wales, arranged with the Fijian Rugby League to play a match in early October 1993 in Suva as a curtain-raiser to a men's match between Fiji and Queensland Residents.

[16] The touring team was selected following a twelve-team national tournament held in Nelson on the June long weekend.

Other teams at the tournament were Hawkes Bay, Nelson-Marlborough A & B, Manawatu, Southland and a President’s XIII.

The support staff were Josie O’Dwyer (Auckland) as masseur and a group of tour managers: Diana Hay (West Coast), Yvonne Hiko (Auckland), Ollie Karu (Manawatu), and Maia Le Cheminant (Canterbury).

[1] Notes In a squad of 20 players, six women were selected from two of three clubs in the Canberra competition: Tuggeranong and Woden Valley Rams.

[21] Several other members of the squad were playing for the Illawarra based team, the Cabbage Tree Hotel.

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