FOOTBALL.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13610, 20 December 1909, Page 8

FOOTBALL.

A CONFERENCE TO MEET IN SYDNEY. Mr Geo. H. Mason, president of the Canterbury Rugby Football Union, has received a letter from Mr J. D. A very, secretary of the New Zealand Rugby Union, informing him that it is proposed to hold a conference between the New South Wales, Queensland, and New Zealand Unions at' Sydney on the 28th inst. The letter adds that at a special meeting of* New Zealand delegates last year it was decided that when such a conference took place the Union should be represented by three delegates—one from each Island, and one from the Management Committee It Y\\ c des V" e of the Committee that Mr Mason should go as one of the representatives. The Council of Delegates of the New Zealand Union, at a meeting held in March last, adopic some suggestions for the amendment of the laws of the game, and these were forwarded to the English Union. That body subsequently referred the amendments to the International Board, But nothing further had so far been heard from the English authorities. It is very probable that the conference will be an extremely important one, and it may lead to the formation of an Australasian Union. It certainly should bring about a good "deal more reciprocity in football matters than at present exists. Mr Mason has not yet decided whether he can accept the invitation to act as the South Island delegate.