AUCKLAND MATCH OFF

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 68, 17 September 1936, Page 14

AUCKLAND MATCH OFF

Owing to injuries suffered by many members of the team, and also to the inability of several others to procure tho necessary leave, the Auckland suggestion' that the touring Australian Wallabies Rugby team should play another match at Auckland before returning to Sydney has been declined. The announcement was made by Mr. S. S. Dean, chairman of the management committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union, at a meeting of the committee last night. ' . Warmest congratulations on the success in the Bledisloe Cup matches of the All Blacks were received from the New South Wales Rugby Union. No time was wasted by the Australian Union in forwarding its congratulations. The cable was sent from Sydney at 5.45 p.m. Australian time, on Saturday, and was telephoned to the secretary of the New Zealand Union, Mr. A. E. Neilson, at 7.50 o'clock the same night. A suggestion by the Hawke's Bay Rugby Union that an interprovincial match between Maori teams should be staged at Palmerston North next Wednesday between teams representing Hawke's Bay and Horowhenua, or Manawhenua, was declined by the committee on the grounds that the time was too short to permit the arrangements to be made. The match was suggested as a curtain-raiser to the Wallabies-New Zealand Maoris match. i Mr. Kingi Tahiwi, incidentally, will manage the Maori team for the match with the Wallabies, and Mr. N. Gilchrist, of Napier, will referee the game. Mr. J. A. Wilson, of Wellington, has been chosen to referee the Wallabies-Canterbury match at Christchurch on Saturday. The Bledisloe Cup brought over, by the Wallabies team will, of course, remain in New Zealand, and the union decided last night that it should be left in the care of Messrs. Walker and Hall, who made the trophy to the order of Lord Bledisloe, and who offered to take care of it on condition that they were allowed to display it in their showroom. SOUTH AFRICAN TOUR. In a statement to the Press, Mr. Dean said that the South African touring team next season would leave Cape Town by the steamer Ulysses on May 14. Further details of the itinerary would be announced later, but the date of sailing had definitely been decided on after consultation with Mr. Gordon Shaw, manager of the Wallabies and representative in New Zealand for the New South Wales Rugby Union.

Reinstatements were granted to T. G. Jordan, Auckland, and to J. Allsopp and R. H. Gordine, Hawke's Bay.