FOOTBALL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 50, 28 February 1908, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

■ • VISIT OF ENGLISH TEAM. , . , PROPOSED ITINERARY, The fixtures for the tour of tho Eng- ! lish Rugby football team about to visit the Dominion Were arranged, subject, of • course, to altnvition by the Management Committeo of tho New Zoahnd Rugby The visitors -are due at Wellington on tho 19th May. .by tho Atljenic, which leaves London on the 4th April. The fir.vt match of the tour will be played at MnsUuion, the 25rtl May. Sixteen games will bo jjlnycd in New Zcnlnnd, the linal ono being against the North Island at Auckland. A visit will he then paid to Australia, and five or six matches pjuyed after which the team will return to "Wellington prior to thrir depaiturs for England. All the matches will be played under the control of the New Zealand Union. Following aro tho fixtures: — Saturday, May- 23,—WaiTarapa and Bush Unions, at Mnsterton. Wednesday, May 27.— Wellington Union, at Wellington. Saturday, May 30.— Otago Union, at Dunedin. Wednesday, June 3. — Southland Union, at Invercargill. Saturday, June 6.— South Island, at Dunedin. Wednesday, June 10.— South Canterbury Union, at Timaru. Saturday, June 13.— Canterbury Union, at Christchurch. Wednesday, June 17.— "West Coast and Bullor Unions, at Greymouth. Saturday, June 20. — Nelson and Mailborough Unions, at Nelson . Saturday, June 27.— New Zealand, at Wellington. Wednesday, July 1. — Hawke's Bay , Union, at Napier. .'Saturday^ July 4.— Poverty Bay Union, at Gifboine. Wednesday, July 8— Manawatu and Horowhcnua Unions, at Palmcrston. Saturday, July 11.— Wnngamii Union, at Wangamii. Wednesday, July 15.— Taranaki Union] at New Plymouth. Saturc'jy, July 18.— Auckland Union, at Auckland. Saturday, July 25.— North Island, at Auckland.