RUGBY CENSORS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 1 September 1928, Page 23

RUGBY CENSORS

—: » ' ".' ' .'"■ HAWKES BAY SUGGESTION INQUIRY \SOUGHT (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NAPIER, 31st August. An inquiry into certain unfair- Pres» criticism of some members of the All Black team at present in- South' Africa is to be urged upon the:NeW Zealand Rugby Union ,by the Hawkes Bay Union. • ■ \-j, Mr. N. A. M'Kenzie introduced- the subject at a meeting to-night, when he expressed the opinion that the New Zealand Union should take some notice of reports which,,.ho said, were biased and a reflection on certain members of the team. The manager of the team, he said, should have supervised the reports before they came to New Zealand, and any spiteful- reference should have been deleted. : ■-■:> Mr. T. Fletcher, a member-ot th« New Zealand Union, who was present.at the meeting, agreed -with Mr.■M'Kenzie. He regretted that players should be criticised behind their backs. He did not think criticism came from the reporter who was away with the team. The worst criticism came from an Auckland source, and was telegraphed round the country. He thought the union should sub-edit some reports. The trouble '. arose from personal criticism from private sources. Mr. Fletcher thought the1: Hawkes Bay Union's motion woiMd strengthen the New Zealand Union in any effort to stop, unjust criticism of players not here to protect themselves.