RUGBY FOOTALL.
NEW ZEALANDEE.S' HO.ME TKIP. J 'By Telegraph.—Press Association.) a CHSISTCHURCH, this day. ! ra At a meeting of the Rugby Union last i co light the question of the proposed tour >i Great Britain of a team under the : fc3 luspice-- of the New Zealand Rugby J .'nion iva, discussed. The chairman said !ce he Canterbury L"nir;u had to contribute j lj £-250. He hoped there would be no ap- - n real to the Government for aid. If they ould not raise enough money without he Government contributing he thought !«-» hey should at once say that New Zea.- ! and could not. a team, it was njt degrading to sport to go to the j Government for money. It was decided j That the amount of £250 be guaran- ! by the Union on condition that no ppeal i= made to the New Zealand Gov-rnm-ent for assistance out of the public unds.*'
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 88, 13 April 1904, Page 7
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