INTERNATIONAL TOURS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 108, 10 May 1939, Page 19

INTERNATIONAL TOURS.

INFECT ON CLUB CONTESTS. OTAGO DOES NOT WANT FRENCHMEN. (By TelegrapU.—Special to " Star.") DUNEDIN, this day. "It seems as though we are going to lose eight, of our club foot bull altogether," remarked Mr. V. G. (.'avanajjli at a meeting of the Otajjo Rugby Union, when a delegate reporting on the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union, eaid the question wa.s being considered whether it would be possible to brims to New Zealand a French team next year. Mr. Oavanagh stated that with the New Zealand team «ioirif? to South Africa, and the trials that would be played, there would lie enough interference with club football without further international teams being invited to the Dominion. REMITS FOR LONDON. WELLINGTON'S ATTITUDE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Approval of a remit to be forwarded to the Imperial Rugby conference in London this year, urging universal adoption of the 2 —3 —2 scrum formation, with no alteration to rules, was expressed by members of the Wellington Rugby Union, when a request wae received from the New Zealand Rugby Union for comment on various remits. The union did not favour remits to the effetit that the referee should put the ball into the iscmiu, and al.so that teams should consist of 14 players.