RUGBY UNION.

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 October 1933, Page 12

RUGBY UNION.

[TO THE EDITOE.] Sir,—The Canterbury Rugby lootball teain successfully i’ esis teil oil challenges for the Ranfurly Shield and a grateful Canterbury Rugby Union has decided to tender the members of the learn, a complimentary dance and. to make each player a. presentation. In marked contrast is the parsimony of the West Coast Rugby Union displayed in regard to the players who helped so successfully to keep the Seddon Shield here.. After a strenuous and most successful season in the annals of West. Coast Rugby, the players are dismissed without a word of thanks and in palticular the application by J. Taate for a contribution towards the inedical expenses' incurred by him in respect of an accident in last week’s match against Canterbury is turned down flat, flow often have we seen in the columns of the Tress during this season reports of applications to the West Coast Rugby (inion refused with the explanation “the finances of the Union do not warrant it.” But when it comes to dispatching official parties comprising managers, selectors trainers, officials and other “dead heads” to Canterbury and on other tours, and to tendering complimentary dinners to outsiders, no expense whatever is spared., One would think from the large attendances at the Shield matches and the exorbitant gate charges that the Union would have a little over, to do something for its worthy players, but apparently wasteful expenditure and the “dead heads” see to that—Yours etc., DISGUSTED.