RUGBY FOOTBALL

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 May 1931, Page 11

RUGBY FOOTBALL

TWO SELECTORS. [PER press association.] ■ WELLINGTON, May 6. This year two .selectors will be appointed to choose the New Zealand Rugby representative team, according to a decision by the Management Committee of the New Zealand Union tonight. . . . , . , Affiliated unions will he circulated for nominations. One selector will be picked from the South Island and one from the North, and in the event ot any dispute arising a member of the New Zealand Union will be called in to decide. These selectors will also pick North Island and South Island teams. The meeting also decided to send letters to Rugby Football Unions dealing with a proposal to call a conference for the establishment of an Imperial Rugby Board, so suggested at fihie annual meeting of delegates last week. BROADCASTING IN AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, May 6. The Management Committee of the Auckland Rugby Union had a long discusion on the question of broadcasting its matches from Eden Park each week. It was decided that permission be granted for Saturday next, and thereafter the position will be reviewed week by week. The discussion was taken into committee, after hearing a statement from the Auckland Manager of the Radio Broadcasting Company. TO-MORROW’S teams. United Seniors v. Rivals: —Smith, Jamieson, Gilbert, Baldwin, Phillips, Samways, Walton, Kear, Summers, Bell, Frew, Rathbun, Fergusson, Moffitt, McDonald. The team will travel by train, leaving Greymouth at 12.45. United Juniors v. Blaketown, at Recreation Ground, I.3o:—Jacobson, Turtill, Haglund, Ellis, Bell, Garth, Dunwoodie, Garrett, Roberts Rodgers, Tennant, Rodgers, McNight, Grooby, Dunwoodie, Burley, Gallagher, Boddy. United Third Grade at Technical Ground, 2.15 p.m.: —Stewart, Beckman, Rathbun, Fergusson (2)', Preston, Adams, Kear, Doig, Hearne, Drumgoole, O’Hara, Gillardid, Panckhurst, SeebOck, Weir, Parfitt. Kumara team to play Stars at Ktimara on Saturday:—W. McNabb, V. Piefson, A. Thorn, T. Henham,: C. Williams, J. McGrath, W. McNabb, W. Rochford, C. Haines, J. Rockford, H. Morgan, W. Loudon, D. Bell, J. Tanner, W. Wallace. Emerg.: 'Backs: —• Tok, Murtha, W. Bell. Forwards: W. McKay, F.,Freitas, T. Steele, E. Rochford. > x .

The following Will represent Ikamatua against Waiuta at Ikamatuaon Sunday next at 2.3o:—Winchester, Pfahlert (2), Prendergast Warding, Pettersen, Ramsden, Thorn, McLennan (2), Ronchi, Guff, Banfidn, Foster, Flynn and Hunt. FIXTURE ALTERATIONS The Cobden fB. v. Brunner junior match which was t’o be played at the Technical School ground at 3.30 p.m. has been cancelled and in consequence the third grade match Cobden y. Technical at the Technical ground will commence at 1.30 p.m. instead of at 1 p.m. and the United v. Blaketown match on the same ground will commence at 3 p.m. instead of 2.15 p.m.