ENGLISH FOOTBALLERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 153, 29 June 1914, Page 6

ENGLISH FOOTBALLERS.

N.Z. TOTJB. EXTENDED. XEW ITINERARY. Apparently all the heartburning occasioned by the muddle into which the | proposed visit of the English Xorthern ! Union team to Xew Zealand has really I ben in vain, or else the determined attitude taken up by the Conned of Management of the Xew Zealand League has ] had the desired effect, for the secretary lof the Dominion governing body has received a cable intimating that the Engllishmen are willing to extend the tour anil give facilities for a match to bo ! played in the South Island and at Xapier, lon the date originally fixed for the Hawked Hay fixture. According to the nevr arrangements the visitors arrive in the Dominion on duly S instead of the 12th. and thus the date with Canterbury, which had to be cancelled at the eleventh hour owing to the touring team's limited stay, will bo played after all. The new itinerary, which was fixed up at an emergency meeting of the oommitee of management this afternoon, is as folloxvs: Wellington, I July 11; Canterbury, July 13: Hawke's j Bay, -Inly 1 S: Taranaki. July '2:'!-. Auckland. July -■'>: Wanganui, July il": Xew j Zealand (at Auckland!. August 1. | It will be seen, aceoidiny to the new arrangements, that tlie English team will arrive at Wellington in-toad of Auckland, and the itinerary they will pursue is precisely Lhat suggested by the New Zealand body in the first install:,', -o that, after all. the more or lis, frantic efforts to compress a o t uart into a pint pot have b"en unnecessary, .wui the position i- "'as you xverc"' At Thursday's meeting of the council and management committee, tho coun- ! oil expressed its determination not to alter the programme then sketched out, but in view ol" I ho fact that the English team was offering to extend the visit, to-day's meeting dec-ided that it could v.itli dignity capitulate. I .