In July 1929 Legge was picked for the England tour of New Zealand in 1929–30. He and Rosemary Frost were married in September 1929, and they went on the tour together as their honeymoon. The tour of New Zealand was one of two tours organised that winter by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), following the 1926 Imperial Cricket Conference decision to extend Test cricket, and teams of mixed ability – some established Test players, some amateurs and county professionals – toured both West Indies and New Zealand that winter. The New Zealand team played first-class matches in Australia before arriving in New Zealand in December 1929. The team was scheduled to play three Test matches in New Zealand; in the event, the third match, at Eden Park, Auckland, was restricted by rain to a single day, so a fourth game, also at Auckland, was played. Legge played in all four Tests, making little impact in the first three; in the fourth game, however, he made 196, the highest score of the series and the highest of his own first-class cricket career. In minor matches on the tour, Legge had some success with his occasional leg-spin bowling: he took six Southland wickets for 24 runs in an innings in one two-day game and nine in the game against Manawatu.