RUGBY UNION

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 110, 12 May 1938, Page 22

RUGBY UNION

: y/executive Meets , MANY REINSTATEMENTS " ' < . V ' - An. exceptional number of applica■v. for reinstatement or admission ' to feugby. football by, players who liave taken part in League football : 5 $«e been received by ithe executive of , the New Zealand 1 Rugby Uirion. TEighty-elght applications were granted atMa?t" "night's meeting of the; exThose present, at (the meeting were: Mr. S. S. Dean (chairman), Lieutenant- j Colonel J. G, and Messrs. A. C. Kitf 0, J, Prendeville; A. McDonald. W. J. .Wallace, Kmgi Tahiwi (Bjfeori , AdvisoryOßoard Representative),, and A.E. Neilson ; (secretary). , ; > Advice - was' retbeived from the! Fiji Rugby Upfofi' stating that everything . in connection with the Maori team's ■ - Visit -to' Was/ under Way. Special ' sub-committees ivereworking, and in- • terest was-very peen.; The standard of *pl?y . ; amongst I the natives, it ! was Stated, Wte'ratbfer hard to judge. >The fijians were hriavy and fast and were- • good" handlers/ but probably lacked the finesse of the Mapris, - Much benefit had been fierived from thecOach- . ' ing- by old Nfew Zealand players. It was l expected that the best fifteen would be & tfer? good'side. 1 ) ■ The following sub-committees iwere "appointed:—, Financeli-4M6Ssrs. Dean, Glasgow, ■ 1 Roache, arioj Prendeville. Outfitting—Messrs. Dean, Wallace, and McDonald. Reinstatement.—Messrs. Dean, Wallace, Roache, and Prendeville.' . Referees' Rulings.—Messrs. McDon- • «ld,'Roacjhe, arid-ldtto. I < :. ,i j. Messrs] Kittpv and Roache wer& ap» ' pointed ' .the New Zealand • Rugby -'ITnion' members' the" New Zealand ■ .Appointment Board. .. i ' -• . _ / ;■ .-/■

CHANGE OF VENICE

PRIfiCE OF WALES CUR CAME .. i ' -'" I - • . .«■!■ Owing to the effects > of the-severe-floodSng on "the East Coast, , the venue. ,ct thte Prince of Wales Cup rhatch ' . (for Maori footballers) l has ; been changed. The New Zealand Rugby Council has agreed that the match shall be played at Opotiki on June 25- - •