TRAVEL PERMIT

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 202, 27 August 1942, Page 7

TRAVEL PERMIT

A MILITARY TEAM?

RUGBY AND LEAGUE CLAIMS

If travel is not desirable, then we as sports are quite agreeable to abide by the decision of the powers that be, but it must be all in or all out," said Mr. J. W. Watson, chairman of the Auckland Rugby League Board of Control, at the week y meeting last evening. "But," »' Watson, " if those authorities . Permission for a Rugby Union ? travel to Wellington and then refuse to allow our Maori League team »u° WeHington for the same ftS? ' en e are not going to take it sitting down.

Watson went on to detail the Snelin trying to overcome this alleged affront to Rugby League. He had raiiway officials at Auckland, erantwi f th ? t Pfmission had been gi anted for an Auckland Rugby Union match t0 -h?i to Wellington for a football t a , similar application for a team , been refused. They ih i? they could not give any reason for bv w'iuui 1 na(l on • and were instructed n ? 1 to g ' ve an y reason. mmZ?? n ons the Ro °Pe Rooster PnEh M Were received as follow:— Marist-North Shore, Newtonv" lbe £k Richmond, City-Otahuhu, was he , draw lG1 " the firsl round f made, and resulted:—Ponsonbv v. \ h°« mt D A] l! ert ' Manukau v. Maristbye- ahore > Richmond and City having

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