RUGBY PROBLEMS

Evening Post, Issue 59, 10 March 1924, Page 5

RUGBY PROBLEMS

TO IHB KDHOIt.

Sir,—Now that the time is fast approaching when the. Eugby. team will leave these shores to! battle with .Rugby ites of the Mother Country, it is of more "than passing interest to read- the remarks of members.of. the 'Management Committee at the meeting, hold/last week m regard to' the discussion upon the conference which should:1 be .held during the English tour. ■:. ' ■.. , .... ■ .. . .

One member, in -particular, no doubt with a politician^ naiven^ss for publicity, appears to have taken up the role of a critic of his colleagues. The remarks of this member .of the committee, whoso attendance at the meetings of the Management Committee'" has been somewhat dilatory, 'appear strange' that he should corns along at the end of a

season and criticise what they should have-done. No doubt there was an aim in view. Now, Mr. Glenn, those who criticise must oxpect to be criticised, and I put it to you: How is it that- you have not been to the forefront with your views months before and given assistance to your colleagues to make this conferonce definite during -the' tour of the All Blacks? It is all very well to talk about the parting of the ways, and the annual meeting is the proper placo to air those views. The writer helped to' lay the foundation of this conference in 1919, and the resolutions passed- laid down a definite procedure which was'submitted and agreed .to by all unions in New Zealand and New South Wales. The suggestion that the international board should convene the conference shows a very poor knowledge of tho functions of that board. That this board has ■no power to convene a conference will be seen by perusing the'bylaws of-'the intornational Rugby Foetball Union. •In these, bylaws the functionsare clearly defined. The Management Committoe has got the. E.RiU. to convene tho conference owing to tho nature, of its affiliation to that body. No- doubt there will lie something do.ints at'the annual meeting next-month; hut, it is not .leavin?. much time for. delegates from South Africa and Now South Wales to niake the necessary arrangements to attend. —I am.' 'etc.. .■..'-■- G: W. SLADE. Bth March. . , ,