RUGBY AFFAIRS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 144, 15 December 1933, Page 10

RUGBY AFFAIRS

VISIT TO AUSTRALIA

N.Z.R.U. CHAIRMAN

Rugby football tours in which Australia and New Zealand are concerned will provide one subject of importance for discussion between the Australian Rugby authorities and Mr. S. S. Dean, chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Union, who is leaving next Friday on a visit to Sydney. Details of New Zealand's tour to Australia next season will be gone into, as also will various matters relating to the visit of the Springboks to Australia and New Zealand in 1937. Mr. Dean no doubt will be sounded as to tho prospects of New ■ Zealand support for Australia's move to receive authority for the of the amended kick-iuto-toueh rule. The New Zealand Rugby chairman's hands, however, will be tied to some extent by the decision of delegates at the last annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union against steps being taken to bring the amended rule back into operation. Australia's point of view is bound to be fully conveyed to Mr. Dean in order to have it placed before the New Zealand controlling body when the Australian request, as set out in a cabled message in "The Post" yesterday, is officially considered.