FOOTBALL.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 118, 20 May 1905, Page 5

FOOTBALL.

NEW ZEALAND RUGBY UNION. A meeting of Jho Management Commrttoo of Uio Now Zealand Rugby Union was hold last evening. It was announced that nineteen of the players selooted for tho English tour had intitnatod that they will bo able to visit Now South Wnlca. IJho Now Zealand team is expected to arrive at Plymouth about Bth September. It. was resolved to adlitre to a former domion that no trainer should 'bo sent with tho team. Tho Tarannki Union advised that it, would donate £10 towards tho cost of the tour, and would altto mak« an effort to arran go for tho playing of a benofit match to raise an additional sum. His Excellency tho Governor wrote nccopting tho offico of Patron of tho Union, and Mr. A. E. 6. Hhodos, Chriatchureh, accepted tho oifico of I'nskleiit. In tho North v. South Island match to bo plnyod at Wellington on 3rd June, tho. North Island colours will bo yellow and black, a-nd tho South Island red and black. Mr. P. Mackio « ki be asked to rcforeo in tho match. Tho committee nppoint< od to go into tho dispute between \Vangaiiui a-nd Ilorowhcnua Qnions in reference to tho disqualification of.a player, ] reported to tlifl eflcct t lint there was no reason why tho matter should be »copened. The Education i\tid Agricultural Depart men fa met yeatcrdtty afternoon on the footbjill field «t Kowlown Park. Tho match resulted in a win for the representatives of education \>y 8 points to nil. Kees and Beck scored, M'Kenzie ronvuting tlio hitter's try. For tlu> lopci-s Fitz(?ibbon wns tho mo«t prominent. Mr. Niinmo guvo-oviTj' suti.«f«iction with tho whistlo.