RUGBY FOOTBALL

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 108, 9 May 1935, Page 7

RUGBY FOOTBALL

NEW ZEALAND TJNIOX

ANOTHER SHIELD CHALLENGE

Notice of another challenge for the Ranfurly Shield, at present held by Auckland, was received at iast night's meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union's management committee, the challenging union being Waikato.

Those present were Messrs. S. S. Dean (chairman), A. C. Kitto, T. A. Fletcher, F. Glasgow, W. J. Wallace, E. S. Hylton, A. McDonald, H. S. Leith, Kingi Tahiwi (Maori Advisory Board representative), and A. E. Neilson (secretary).

. Advice was received from the New Zealand University Rugby Football Association that it had decided to postpone for a y*ar the visit of a university team to Australia.

The Mayor of Margate, (Mr. F. L. Pettman) wrote offering training facilities at Margate for the New Zealand Rugby team prior to its important matches in London. It was decided to reply thanking the Mayor of Margate for his invitation and offer, and informing him that the matter had been referred to the manager of the team. The letter is also to include an expression of appreciation of the hosjPitality extended to the 1924-25 New Zealand team by the people of Margate.

The following sub-committees were appointed:—Finance, Messrs. Dean, Glasgow, Leith, and Hylton; reinstatement, Messrs. Wallace, Dean, and Kitto; interpretation of -rules, Messrs. Fletcher, McDonald, and Leith; outfitting, Messrs. Kitto, Dean, and Wallace; school grants, Messrs. Dean, Fletcher, Glasgow, Leith, and Hyllon.

Messrs. Leilh and. Kitto were appointed the union's representatives on the New Zealand Referees' Appointment Board.

A decision was made that each union be asked to nominate no more than five referees eligible for and capable of controlling representative matches, the nominees, if possible, to be given in order of merit. It was agreed that notification should be given of any other referees who' should subsequently prove themselves to be worthy of receiving consideration for appointments to representative matches.

With regard to the series of trial matches it was decided to suggest to the unions concerned that the charges for admission be Is 6d to the ground and Is extra to the stand, the charges to be plus tax. In; the case of the two final trials at Wellington, it was agreed to suggest Is 6d (plus tax) as the additional charge for the stand, the secretary (Mr. Neilson) having mentioned that the Wellington matches would mean heavier expense and they would provide better football. It was possible, of course, that Wellington I would not want to go so high.

A grant of £50 was made to the Hawke's Bay Union towards the cost of-a visit by its colts' team to Taupo, King Country, and Thames Valley. The Bay of Plenty Union was treated similarly in the matter, of its sending of a team to the. East Coast, Poverty Bay, and Wairoa- The- King Country Union was granted £30 towards the cost of its tour of Bay of Plenty and Waikato.