RUGBY LEAGUE.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19814, 30 December 1929, Page 13

RUGBY LEAGUE.

- ♦ - NEW ZEALAND APPEAL. TRANSFBR OF PI.ATBML (rsf»i« ocii Kin roßiUi«r«H»ari..t LONDON, N*v««fc*r tl, Rugby tongue flobs in Oraat Bf*«**« huve received tin* following eir««ls>r Iff tor from Now a»*ii.l»iMl:

"The Ntiw Z««tUn>l ltngt-J Fo»ilw*i IA-aguc hurt: itskod tin' |>«rmtasi«t *f the Kngiish l»»*ngu<- to bring tin- fellow ing facts to tin- m>ltee "f yon* t\mb, m tht! hojie tlint jour au|<)K>M will Nl forthcoming to right a wrong u»dt>r |Ji« iFiflueuro of which f«s>tt*Bn.tl '* New Zealand i* languishing. »r»d, i» <lo«4, without fiotui- rodress, sn<l list qoickly, "ill een>4« to esiirt. "The position at prrnaiit* is »• f«l lows; -

"'League football it* New />al««4 *• conducted on pun ij amattnr line*. »m 4 the «>n]>ciiw:>» of the elobtt are tw«t h* subscription* nnd donatloma from «*p porter* and pi ay era.

"teate mone>y I* Maipi.l l.v tb# p*m vincial Iftagnea. »n<l elnb4i are net t« rfceipt of any proporttoa of gat« monev. CMil>s liavr no flnaneiat WM over their players, they not he-tag •« r««ipt of monttary rtrompeaiar far playing iootball.

"('onaequently, * club who-se su|»port vtn have gone to lapetise and troabVa la get together a g«Kni tcnini have no ra ilreas if cm- or in ore of their player* sign tip with Kngtish «tubs. "No Kngliuli eluh would aa«etirm a«eh ii at ate of nfTaira in reference to ttoir own players, ami w«« enmestlt' urg«" jour support in terminating tn« h «a iniquitouN position.

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