VISIT TO CEYLON BY N.Z. COLTS

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27626, 5 April 1955, Page 3

VISIT TO CEYLON BY N.Z. COLTS

DATES FOR TOUR DECIDED (New Zealand Press Association) . WELLINGTON, April 4. A New Zealand colts' Rugby team will tour Australia and Ceylon this season. The dates for the tour were decided at a meeting of the executive committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union tonight. after correspondence from the Ceylon Rugby Union had been received.

At the committee’s previous meeting, Ceylon advised that an All-India tournament among six teams had been arranged to take place from September 25 to October 1, and the changed dates did not fit in with the union’s provisional bookings. The latest letter from Ceylon suggested two alternatives, the second of which the union decided to accept. The team will now arrive by air at Melbourne on August 25 to begin the tour, and will play Melbourne on August 27, Adelaide on August 30, and Perth on September 1. On September 2 it will embark on the Stratheden and will arrive at Colombo, Ceylon, on September 9. ■ The colts, who will be away for 45 days, will play six matches in Colombo and leave by the Orontes on September 25 for Perth and then Fremantle,. from where they will fly home. It was originally thought possible to play several matches in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, but this idea has been abandoned.

The party will consist of 22 players, with two managers and probably a doctor. It will be chosen from the country’s most promising players, who will be nominated by the unions up to the second week in July. The team will then be selected by the present New Zealand selectors. There is no age limit, and each member will be required to pay £250 to cover all expenses for the tour.

• BAN ON ALUMINIUM SPRIGS SOUGHT (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 4. The Wanganui Rugby Union has given notice to the New Zealand Union that it will move at the annual meeting that it be a strong recommendation to the council that the laws be altered to prohibit the use of aluminium sprigs.

HURUNUI SUB-UNION OFFICERS

The following officers were elected at the annual meeting of the Hurunui Rugby Sub-Union, held at Waiau recently:— President, Mr S. Maxwell; vice-presi-dents, Messrs C. Burrows, F. Forrester, E. A. Harrison, S. Barkley; secretary and treasurer, Mr J. Burrell; records secretary, Mr E. A. Harrison; trustees, Messrs S. Maxwell and K. Rodgers; executive, Messrs T. Crossen, F. Forrester, N. Macintosh, A. Stubberfield; senior selectors, Messrs R. B. Henderson and D. S. Loader; junior selector, Mr F. Shadbolt; postponement committee, Messrs J. J. Donovan, M. Fitzgerald, and A. Higginbotton; delegates to Canterbury Rugby Sub-Unions, Messrs F. Forrester, N. Macintosh, J. Burrell, and S. Maxwell; delegates to Canterbury Rugby Union, Messrs S. Maxwell and F. Forrester. It was decided to open the season on April 30.