RUGBY CONTROL

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 149, 20 December 1929, Page 12

RUGBY CONTROL

REQUEST TO DOMINIONS

AUCKLAND RESOLUTION

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

AUCKLAND, This Day. A meeting of the management committee of the Auckland Rugby Union, presided over by Mr. H. Frost, was held to consider the following resolution, passed by the International Board: ''As a condition precedent to the consideration of the creation o£ a consultative body under the supreme control of the International Board, all the Dominion unions should agree to adopt the laws of the game as framed by this board." After the matter had been dealt with in detail, the following resolution was passed: "It would appear that there is some misunderstanding or misconception in connection with the resolution of last March, passed by the International Board. So far as this union is aware the New Zealand Kugby Football Union has not made application for, nor does it desire, the creation of a consultative body under the control of the international board. We understand a request made by New Zealand was that, during the visit of the British team here next year, opportunity should be taken to convene a conference of as many delegates as possible of the Rugby countries, one of the objects of which should be the consideration of the formation of an Imperial Rugby Board, on which our Dominion, in common with each of the other Kugby unions, should have separate representation. In the opinion of this union, it is not conceivable or reasonable that there should be any conditions precedent to the holding of such a conference, more especially as the Rugby Football Union has already granted dispensation in various ways to overseas unions to meet local conditions. It must be apparent that it would be quite futile to hold any conference with beneficial results under restrictions such as those outlined in the International Board resolution. This union is of the opinion that there should be a supreme controlling body in the nature of an Imperial Board, on which all the Dominion unions should have direct representation, and considers the resolution of the International Board to be entirely unacceptable to the Rugby unions in this Dominion."