NORTH V. SOUTH

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 27, 1 August 1923, Page 6

NORTH V. SOUTH

in. connection Vith the North v. South match next Saturday, the secretary of th 3 W.R.F.U. states that the following arrangements have been made for the control of the match :—Special trains will leave Lower Hutt .at 12.40 'p m arriving at Lambton Station at 1.2 p.m., and will leave again from l&mbton at 5.40 p.m. These trains will be in addition to those on the ordinary time-table.. - .

The departure of the Wairarapa train will be delayed untii .5.55 p.m. Palmerston North patrons will be able to return rnu 6 p-m- *rain from Thorndon. Ihe box plan is now open at The Bristol.

Eight stile entrances from Rintoul street and two from Adelaide road will be used on Saturday. Tickets to the ground will be on sale to-morrow momlng- ' ...

Members of the North and South Island teams are to assemble in Wellington at noon on Friday. The fifteen players who are to take the field for the Isorth Island have not yet been antS U- nCu c. dl /A U is understood that D. Wright (Auckland) may not make the tap to Wellington, H e is chosen as half-back for the Auckland team to play Southland^ on Saturday. Mill, the -dawkes' Bay : a nd Maori halfback, is suffering from an injury to a finger, but it is not bad enough to prevent him taking the field next Saturday. '■ Two of the best inside backs in the North Isw i' ; ,™T, erson (Auckland) and :E. Roberts (Wellington), who were nominated for the North Island team, but who were.- reported to be not available, have been chosen to play in representative matches on Saturday, Ifwerspn for Auckland against Southland, and Roberts for Wellington against Wairarapa. It hag been reported that Q. Donald (Wairarapa), has been suffering from influenza, but no advice has been received that ho ■will not be able to play.