RUGBY TOURS

Evening Star, Issue 23124, 25 November 1938, Page 12

RUGBY TOURS

TEAM FOR AFRICA TO BE CHOSEN NEXT YEAR UNIVERSITY TEAM COMING FROM ENGLAND [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, November 25. Considerable discussion took place at a meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Council on the matter of tours. Mr Dean was in the chair, and the New Zealand selector (Mr E. M’Kenzie) was present by invitation. A proposition was made by Dr G. J. Adams that a New Zealand team be sent on tour throughout the Dominion nest season, playing a series of matches, the final one of which be versus the Rest, the idea being to give the New Zealand selector every opportunity of getting the best team away for South Africa in 1940. After long discussion it was finally decided that such a tour nest season under all the circumstances was impracticable. It was resolved that the New Zealand team for South Africa be selected next year, and that the chosen players be subjected to examination by medical officers a month before the team’s departure in 1940. The team, it was pointed out, would have to leave in April or earlv in May. Information of a favourable nature was received from English sources regarding the proposed visit by a university team from England to New Zealand next season. Official word from the English Rugby Union is awaited. The matter of a visit by a Fijian team was discussed, and the executive was empowered to sulimit a report giving the proposed itinerary and the estimated cost.