MANAWATU-HOROWHENUA.

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 73, 23 September 1922, Page 14

MANAWATU-HOROWHENUA.

At a recent .football function in Levin Mr. W. Thomson, chairman of the Horowhen.ua Rugby' .Union's Management Committee, made .reference to the amalgamation proposal ,-with Manawatu. He explained that undier the amalgamation Horowhenua would not lose its identity. Under the scheme the olub competitions would go on as usual, also the usual to■preßentotiv* matches with Rangitikei, Bush, andi other unions. Th© liriking'-up of Manawatu and Horowhenua, however, would, practically make the combined; union a metropolitac one. At th© present time there was no hope of ever getting match cc with Wellington, Otago, Canterbury, Southland, ■ Auckland, or Taranaki, but it wouldbe different withi the combined team, and he instanced their game with the Springboks, which was ons of the besi ir New Zealand, against the Africans. The Manawatu Union ,was willing to put £600 into thei scheme 1, also to finance a tour right to Ih-vffleargill next year, and the season after that would 1 probably sea some of the unions playing the return matches here. The proportion of these representative games it was proposed to give Horowhetrua w ason* to every two in Palm^r«ton North. He thought the amalgamation would give th© Horawhenua players much wddw opportunities fca getting big fooijball thao they ever would g«t at preeent. , /