RUGBY LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL TOURS

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27736, 13 August 1955, Page 8

RUGBY LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL TOURS

FOURYEAR CYCLE APPROVED DECISION OF AUCKLAND CONFERENCE (New Zealand Preet AeeodaUm) . . AUCKLAND, August 12. c > cl * °f International Rugby League tours ™ approved at the Joternaconal conferatAuckiand today* Tor New ZeaJ'S? aiteraata vittt, from and French team, every two » Wg alao mran that the Southern “d New BsS: land and Trance at two-year Intervals. Competition for the Courtney trophy, at !!"•«?* held by France, would also fit Into the iour-ye.r cycle of tours. From the ISS7-S1 period, the international board will chart the resulta at IntynaHnnal matrhe, over the four yean ■nd, after the winner hae been decided on peteentesee. award that country the ehataga basis. Manna! of Methods To asatet la obtaining uniform interpretations of the laws of Rugby League, the conferenoe secrotary (Mr W. Fallowfield) Is producing a manual which will list the different methods used in the tour main League-playing countries. Mr Fallowfleld said the manual would first be used to help touring teams playing under strange interpretations and would ultimately result in uniformity in an countries. ' The conference also disci msed ways of propagating Rugby League in the United States and South Africa. The New Zealand team which will tour England and France this summer will return by way of the United States, and it was hoped to organise several games for the team there. Mr FaHowfleld said there had been a suggestion of playing exhibition Rugby Teague games in South Africa, and that w still a no—fhUity Mr Fallowfield, who has been connected with international Rugby League meetings since IMB, was re-elected secretary of the conference. He said after the last session that this meeting was one of the best that he had attended and he praised the chairmanship of Mr J. W. Watson, of New Zealand. MATCHES ON TELEVISION (Bee. S pan.) LEEDS, Aug. 11. The Rugby League Council announced today that it had signed a contract with a commercial television station tor floodlit Rugby League matches to be televised from London during October and NovemcouncU deferred until its next meeting the question of the transfer ban on the signing of Australian and New Zeataid play era. Theban expires on December 31, and Australia wants it continued for two more .years.