DISAPPOINTED

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 107, 6 May 1926, Page 11

DISAPPOINTED

NEW ZEALAND'S EUGBY CLAIM.

Comment on the action of the International Eugby Board in not agreeing to the setting up of an Imperial Kugby Advisory Board was made by the retiring president of the New Zealand Kugby Union (Mr. H. H. Eraser) at the annual meeting this afternoon. "We all had reason to hope last year," said Mr. Eraser, "that before we assembled this year an Imperial Advisory Board would be an accomplished fact, but these hopes have been disappointed, and we are now invited to another Imperial conference at the close of the year, and there is no certainty thrft tho voice and vote we. want in the government of the laws of the game will be any nearer at the close of the conference than it is now. There is no question but that the overseas unions have played themselves into the position where they are entitled to be recognised as on an equality with the unions in Great Britain. Further than this, we have shown that we are as loyal to spirit and rules of amateurism as is any country where Eugby is played. "In my judgment, it 13 up to tho Eugby authorities in Great Britain to Teeognise these facts and to concede to us as honest a desire to further this splendid game as they themselves possess. The Management Committee is of the opinion that we should be represented at the conference in November or December next, but that we should not accept annual conferences as a solution of our wishes. We want an Imperial Advisory Board and the right to not only bring forward remits but to have a say in the discussion of Ihem, and a vote as to their acceptance.'1