CREDIT OF £4000

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 149, 19 March 1936, Page 3

CREDIT OF £4000

Rugby in New South Wales The financial position of the New South Wales Rugby Union, as disclosed at the sixty-second annual meeting, is an eloquent tribute to the organisation and administrative powers of those who have had charge of the union's affairs since the war. especially in the last ten years (writes "Rambler’’ in the "Sporting Globe"). Very few sporting bodies would have survived the severe blow amateur football received at the secession of the Wallabies. But the union, though badly battered, weathered the storm and now has a credit of £-1000. With the great public schools supplying splendid material year after year and an infusion of young blood into the administrative ranks., there was a remarkable recovery, with tbe result that to-day the game has been revived in Queensland, and, regarding the wider extension of the Union game, the report has the following to say“Your council is pleased to report healthy activity in the other States. For the first time in the history of the code South Australia and Mest Australia met in an inter-State fixture, when a West Australian team visited Adelaide, playing two matches, with honours divided. A South Australian team again visited Melbourne and Melbourne University again went to Tasmania. Queensland union was successful in reviving the Marwick branch union. . “Junior and schools' organisations in Melbourne made progress. Scotch College (Melbourne) sent a team to Sydney to play The Scots’ College, making the first occasion a Melbourne school has visited Sydney to play Rugby Union.” New Zealand’s share iu helping the come-back was a great one. When tbe amateur game needed fostering in New South Wales the Dominion union sent and received teams on financial terms of great liberality. Certainly it was vital to have a strong Rugby Union playing country handy to tbem-

selves, but their generosity was more than could have been prompted by this mot ive. Profit on last yehr’s workings was £696. Gate receipts from club games were £3741; membership subscriptions. £788; players’ registration fees, £346; affiliation and entry fees, £119; surplus on Maori team’s visit, £762. Main items of expenditure were:— club games, ground hire, £2354; advertising. £201; trophies, etc., £129; deficits Queensland visit, £47; Victorian visit, £67; salaries. £594; rent, £220; general administrative expenses, £316; country football, £258; gatemen s wages. £359; grants to district clubs. £479. Assets exceed liabilities by £3999/19/11.