Letter Box
Amateurism “I wish to refer you to my letter of May 29 wherein I asked whether the co-selqctor and coach of the Canterbury representative team had infringed his amateur status by autographing records for sale. You will recall that my letter also asked whether the members of the team who had been coached by a professional and the members of the union who appointed him had also committed a breach of the tules of amateurism. In view of the New Zealand Rugby Union ruling regarding the proposed autographing of records for sale by S. F. Hill, B. E. McPhail, and K. r’ Tremain, I should be pleased if you could now substantiate your reply to my queries, namely, “Your questions are based on false assumptions,” as the discussions which prompted my letter are sure to have been reopened by this latest decision.” AMATEUR OR SHAMATEUR? The chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Union’s council (Mr C. S. Hogg) said that as these were P. B. Vincent’s own records he is entitled to do what he likes with them. *
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29067, 2 December 1959, Page 20
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