DISCUSSION ON GAME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 240, 10 October 1935, Page 22

DISCUSSION ON GAME.

ADDRESS BY VISITING MANAGERS. Concluding an address at a conference between the Australian team managers, Messrs. Harry Sunderland and W. J. Chaseling, and the New Zealand Council and the Auckland Rugby Leaguej Mr. Sunderland assured his hearers that he would return home more than ever a strong advocate of reciprocity with New Zealand. Mr. Chaseling spoke in the same strain and Mr. V. Jensen, patron • of the Queensland League, also expressed pleasure at the attention being given to junior and schools' football.

Mr. Cyril Snedden, after extolling the Australian tour and players, said the council wished to convey to the Australian Board of Control its greetings and thanks for seeing fit to send an international team this way. The public had shown its appreciation of the play and it was certain that the standard of the game here would benefit.

Mr. Sunderland dealt with the scope and administration of the game in Australia. New Zealand's problems were identical with those of Queensland but relatively smaller by reason of lesser distances to be covered in connection with the centres' and touring teams. The established success achieved in Queensland was the result of enterprise and organisation, and what that State was able to do could and would be done by the Dominion with the aid of Australia. They had to build on present achievements and in this respect lie thought New Zealand was on the threshold of great advancement. He thought it remarkable that New Zealand should be able to beat Australia in the first Test, hold Australia to evens until half-time in the third Test, and in the last match prevent the visitors from scoring until 33 minutes from .the start. He considered that having regard to form, New Zealand asked too much of its national teams to play three Tests in a week. However, New Zealand undoubtedly had the material and Australia would be looking forward to seeing a first-class side over there in the. very near future.

Mr. G. Grey Campbell, chairman of the Auckland League, said the visit had done great good, which would be followed ill) next year and demonstrated against the Englishmen. The council discussed subsequently matters of policy with Mr. Sunderland, who was asked to suggest to the Australian Board the _ need for visits between the two countries to take place earlier in the season. Presentations to Visitors. . At the conclusion of the match yesterday Mesdames Culpan, Stonex and Houghton, members of the Auckland Rugby League ladies' committee, presented tokens of esteem to some of the visitors with the Australian team. The managers received carved cigarette boxes inlaid with mother-o'-pearl. In view of his approaching marriage, the Australian captain, D. Brown, received a tawa shell artistically mounted, with silver salt spoon. Tie visitors were taken by surprise at the presentations and enthusiastically expressed thanks.