CANTERBURY RUGBY UNION.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 9990, 21 March 1898, Page 3

CANTERBURY RUGBY UNION.

The nineteenth annual report of this Union to be presented next Saturday night opens with, an expression_of .regret that in the three mterprovinc__" matches played during the season Canterbury was defeated. The committee recommend that the matches with the Ellesmere and North Canterbury districts be continued, considering them a beneficial' means of discovering probable country representatives in iriterprovincial teams. The report states that .the Otago and Southland games will this year be played in Christchurch, and that the Canterbury representative team will tour the North Island. The Union has thirty-three clubs on the roll of membership, alt of which appear on the balance sheet as financial. Reference is made to the good work of the Permanent Committee in remedying abuses in connection with the different competition ; to the tour of the New Zealand team in Queensland and New South Wales ; to the revised rules and proposed players' insurance scheme ; to the seven a-side tournament and to the dissatisfaction expressed at the management of the New Zealand Union, and the Committee trusts that better management will be the result of the agitation. The balance sheet showed the receipts to have been £478 10s 7d, inclusive of a fixed deposit, and £148 4s 8d from inter-club matches. The expenditure was £336 14s sd, including £93 15s 5d southern ( tour, printing and adve.l'si ng £32 103, and donaj tions £23. The credit balance is £141 16s 2d. The assets' amount to £153 8s 2d, and there are no liabilities. On the annuals there is a loss represented of nearly £7. The Canterbury v South Island match shows a credit of £3, and that of Canterbury v Wellington of £30.