LEAGUE FOOTBALL

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 37, 12 August 1927, Page 15

LEAGUE FOOTBALL

VISIT PROM ENGLISH TEAM

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

'pi <. * . -AUCKLAND, 11th August. TJifc first official intimation that an English Rugby League team will visit New Zealand next season was received by the Aew Zealand Rugby League at its meeting to-night. A letter from the English League, stated that it was pleased to accept New Zealand's invitation. The usual conditions with regard to the sharing of gate money would apply, 60 per cent, to be allotted to the visitors and 40 per cent, to the New Zealand League, all match expenses to be paid out of New Zealand's share. The English League asked for early advice regarding the itinerary of the tour, as it was intended to make booking arrangements at once.

The chairman, Mr. C. A. Snedden. stated no definite arrangements could be made until the Australian Board of Control had first arranged the itinerary of Australia.

It was decided to await information from the Australian Board of Control before arranging the New Zealand programme.

Mr. John Wilson, secretary to the English League, wrote as follows:—"I am directed by the council to make ifc quite clear that the matter of the residential clause is now out of our hands. The members of the English League, at their- annual general meeting, decided the time had now arrived when the agreement must be terminated, and the council is powerless to act otherwise in deference to an emphatic decision of an annual general meeting."

Mr. Snedden said it was proposed to discuss the removal of the residential clause at a conference to be held in Sydney in the near future, when New Zealand would be directly represented. It •was decided to take no further action in the meantime.