RUGBY TOURS
Complaint by Fiji (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON. The chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union (Mr J. L. Sullivan) said last night that the union was often accused wrongly of being difficult and awkward over club tours overseas. He said this at an executive meeting after a letter was received from the Fiji union complaining that the Auckland club, Pakuranga United, played in Fiji recently without the permission of the Fiji union.
This had occurred through an oversight on the part of the N.Z.R.F.U., Mr Sullivan said. The union took full responsibility and would apologise to Fiji, he said. Fiji’s complaint pin-pointed problems of club tours overseas, Mr Sullivan said. The N.Z.R.F.U. had to work in with the wishes of other unions. Before going overseas clubs should be careful they had approval not only from the N.Z.R.F.U. but also from the union of the country it was visiting.
The executive decided to refer a request from the Swansea schools Rugby body to tour New Zealand in August, 1976,, to the Welsh Rugby Union. Mr Sullivan said that the Swansea union had been wrongly advised that it first needed the approval of the N.Z.R.F.U.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19740423.2.178
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33516, 23 April 1974, Page 16
Word Count
196RUGBY TOURS Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33516, 23 April 1974, Page 16
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.