RUGBY FOOTBALL

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22376, 13 April 1938, Page 3

RUGBY FOOTBALL

THE SOUTH CANTERBURY

UNION

VISIT FROM MAORI TEAM

Information that a strong Maori team, practically a New Zealand side, will visit Timaru to play against South Canterbury, was given to a meeting of the Management Committee of the South Canterbury Union by the president (Mr J. H. Harley). The president said tha.t he had been told bY Mr Ned Parata, chairman of the Maori Advisory Board, that the team was to visit the South Island in June. The team would come from the Bay of Plenty district and would play matches against Canterbury, South Canterbury. North Otago, and Southland. Mr Parata had suggested June 8 as the date of the match at Timaru. The action of the president in accepting the match was approved. It was decided to support a remit to be discussed at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Union, as follows: “That the following be added to the Ranfurly Shield rules: Should the holder of the shield be defeated in any challenge‘match and any challenge matches arranged with the then holder be not played, all such challenges shall be treated as having been arranged with the subsequent holders, and may be played during the current season and at such times as shall be mutually agreed between the unions concerned, and, failing such agreement, shall be fixed by the council of the New Zealand Union.”

Approval was given of the inclusion of a Waimate Sub-Union team in the union’s senior competition this year. Owing to the addition of the team imposing greater travelling expenses on other teams, it was decided to investigate the desirability of taking control of transport into the committee’s own hands.

FINE FOR INTOXICATED MOTORIST

Thomas Henry Lewis, a saddler, of Hook, appeared in the Waimate Magistrate’s Court, before Messrs P. Grant and F. Nash. Justices of the Peace, on a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a car, and was fined £lO, his licence was cancelled, and he was debarred from procuring another until June 1, 1939.