ALL BLACK TOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 49, 27 February 1924, Page 5

ALL BLACK TOUR.

ay THE MANAGERSHIP. POSITION :.:!•- AN APPOINTMENT. ! WHAT ( CSTOM SAYS. I Rugby football, ever a live taapic in : New Zealand, very shortly will make a bigger claim tlrin usual on the a'teni tion ol' the people oi New Zealand. i Although the team i- not timed to sail from New Zealand I'll .Inly next, the question of the managership is | already being freely t!iseii-«cd. say- tlio j Wellington -Time.-''. Much of the di-.■us-iou' i- Iki"n! ~n an absence ..f knowj ledge ol what is ucvurring ami likely io occur. A move i- Pein- made in the direction of having l!"' appointment made by the annual general meeting of ' !■•• ' VZ.K.I P. v.hi.h i- lo take place in W.l- , lington on April 10th. Leaving aside ihe question of whether this would or would not be the proper course. it. appear- ... be accepted rh.ll the custom i for rear- past h:i- 1-ren that the appoirP in,-n't ..f ii touring manager is the business of the exei'iiUM". ,-u-sed by the ex'i-ting executive, bill |it may crop up at tbe nevi m-eting, j whi.'h is 10 he lirlil on March iith. I !: would not Ik- pursuant lo cu-.tr.rn lif the exi-ting executive were to make the appointment. I'sagc has it that the appointment i- made by the winI mittee elected to do tlie work of the | union for the year in which th., team is chosen and dispatched. In this at^cthai will be lhe executi.e elected by the annual meeting which commence- on April loth. Ho-.vc.cr. there .-an be lv. dodging liie fact that the annual meeting of delegates can dominate the position it il wishes to. If the present executive follow- cti.-t.ini an.l leaves tlie matter io be dealt wili, I.y its -urc— or-, the delegates gathered in annual ference can lore-tall the new executive, if they i Link lit. an.l make the appoint tllent ■"•- lore c, r the i-Xcciitiae is ele, ted. If. on ihe oilier band, t!.,- ev.i-tin-4 c.-euiive mu-'-s .111 appoiiituiein. the .1.-1 -l'.u.'Ulighl < -alli'el il.