"LOT OF HOT TALK”

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20208, 29 March 1940, Page 10

"LOT OF HOT TALK”

H.B. UNION ATTACKED ALLEGED LACK OF HELP RUGBY IN WAIROA (Special to the Herald.) WAIROA, this day. ' The measure of financial assistance granted to ‘Rugby in Wairoa by the Hawke’s Bay Rugby Union was the subject of strong criticism at the annual meeting of the Wairoa County Rugby Sub-Union on Wednesday evening when the finances of the sub-union were being discussed. A clause in the annual report expressed the thanks of the sub-union to the Hawke’s Bay union in making a grant towards the travelling expenses of third-grade players. Reference to this was made by Mr. B. E. Parkinson. He said that repre~c: tat'vcs of the Hawke’s Bay union rune to Wairoa last season “full of beans, srd gave us a let of hot talk.” 1-Ie saw by tire balance sheet that ail Wairca appeared to have received was £4 add for third grade travelling. appeared to h'm that the I-lawke’j Bay union had slipped in not granting s greater measure cf assistance than hat. r '. r s ; .t v :'orv, Mr. \7. G. Brownlie, ::.kl it had to be remembered that the

Hawke’s Bay union sent a representaUve team to Wairoa last season. That, in the opinion of the chairman, Mr, ll.’ S. Nightingale, was one of the duties of the union. Mr. G. M. O’Malley was of the opinion that if third grade players could not pay something towards thentravelling expenses, it was hardly worth while continuing with that grade. Mr. Brownlie said the attitude of the Hawke’s Bay union was that if playei.' received assistance before going into the higher grades they entered those t grades spoon fed" whereas if they had to pay their own expenses while playing in the lower grades they entered the high grades with plenty of enthu- ■ siasm. Mr. W. S. Bilbrough said that if no assistance were forthcoming for third grade travelling expenses, the Nuhakt third grade team would be out altogether. If the sub-union stopped supi norting third, grade football it would be a sorry plight for the schools. “That is the union which spent £590 in sending a representative team tc the South Island,” said Mr. Parkinson when again referring to the alleged lack of support from the mother union. “They send us only £4.’’