Alley wrote a book on the 1930 tour of New Zealand by the British Lions,[REF] entitled With the British rugby team in New Zealand, 1930.
In the lead-up to the 1960 All Blacks tour of South Africa, Alley was a member of a pressure group, the New Zealand Citizens' All Black Tour Association, that opposed the exclusion of Māori players from the team imposed by the South African authorities [REF].