N.Z.R.U. LOSS EXPECTED

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29324, 1 October 1960, Page 7

N.Z.R.U. LOSS EXPECTED

Season’s Deficit Mav Be £9OOO

(New Zealand Press Association} WELLINGTON. Sept. 30 The New Zealand Rugby Unior expects a deficit this vear of between £BOOO and £9OOO.

The chairman (Mr C. S. Hogg) told the council today that the South African tour would cost approximately that amount, while a Maori team had been sent to Tonga and Samoa. Some revenue had still to come in, including the union’s share of tomorrow’s match at Athletic Park.

y° u all know.” said Mr Hogg, ‘it is normal to have a deficit of about this amount when we send teams abroad. We make it up when the teams come here.”

A French Rugby team will definitely come to New Zealand for a 13-match tour in Julv-August next. Mr Hogg said after a discussion in committee.

Mr Hogg said that Mr Serg Saulnier, an official of the French Rugby Union, expected to be in Australia on business next month. There might then be the opportunity to complete some of the tour arrangements.

The council confirmed that a New Zealand team will go to Australia in May-June, 1962. and that Australia would return the visit in JulyAugust of the same year. The council discussed an invitation for New Zealand Universities to tour British Columbia next April. It was explained that Canada had undertaken to meet the cost of fares in excess of £2OOO. The Universities Rugby Council was authorised to continue negotiations for the tour with the recommendation that the time be advanced by at least one month. After a discussion conducted partly in committee, it was agreed that an invitation could not, at this stage, be sent to Tonga.