RUGBY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12527, 12 April 1935, Page 6

RUGBY

POVERTY BAY UNION ANNUAL MEETING TONIGHT PAST SEASON REVIEWED. An interesting review of the past season, is contained in the annual report of tho Poverty Bay Rugby Union, to he submitted at tho annual meeting in the San Toy rooms this evening. The report points out- that the union has lodjgod' a yah allonge for the Ranfurfv Shield, now hold by Auckland, and that an endeavour is to he made to send the strongest team available in quest of the trophy In. the early representative matches of last season, the. report indicates the form of the district team was disappointing, hut later in the season a solid combination was- fie Med the defeat of Auckland 1 indicating that the right typo of player is available in Poverty Bay. An experiment undertaken with a view to improving the general -stand a-rd! of play was the initiation of an exchange of visits by colts’ teams between Wairoa and Gisborne; tlie re suits from the financial angle were -however not- satisfactory and! the Poverty Bay union considers that until conditions improve, the further outlay of money in this experiment is. not justified. " With tho assistance of grants from the- New Zealand union, and from the three union districts visited, the P'ov ert-y Bay union sent- a, representative •team on four, the report records, and apart from the benefit, t-o players., the contact with other union districts shouvd he of considerable value and benefit to Poverty. Bay Rugby football in the future. The record of

the Poverty Bay senior repTesenta,tives for the season was as under : •v. Bay •of Plenty, lost s—ll. v. Rotorua, won. IT —0 v. Thames Valley, won 9—B v. Wairoa. at AVairoa, lost 3—26 v." Wairoa, at Gisborne, Cost 11—14 v. Haiwke’s Bay. drew 8-all v. East Coast, at Run,tori a, won 25—21. ..~. .. . . v. East Coast, at Gisborne, won 31—0. v. Auckland. m Gisborne, won 14—13. The report mentions the union’s 1 pleasure in the performance of the Celtic senior teany, in winning the Spillane Cup, Hi ]|asl) Easter, when a good impression of the standard of play in this district was left in the northern district, p, liana and B. Rogers are congratulated) ion. thofir selecvtioti <fr.tr the Maori touring team, and TT. Kirkpatrick on his inclusion in tho All Black trial at Wanganui. ALL BLACK TRIAL GAME. ( It is recorded that arrangements have been made for a preliminary gamo at Gisborne* in connection with the All. Black trials of tho 1935 season and that' Poverty Bnv, East Coast and Ray of Plenty, will form a, combined! team for the trial at Napier, against TTniwke’s Bay and the Bush district-. Interest, in foot-ban was well maintained in the country districts during the past season, and matches terthe Black and White Cup attracted much attention. With a view to encouraging the sub-union" players two matches in town were arranged f° T them, and 1 in addition, town clubs played l several games with country sub-union teams on the hitters’ grounds. In the chili competition conducted by the Poverty Bav union, Celtic iw'ou the senior grade championship and also the Premier Cun and the seven a. side Old Boys won the junior and 1 third grade eh amnion, shipsi and High School and Afarist the fourth and fifth grade champion slops respectively. Con-''rn to latinos are tendered th 0 winning teams, and the performance of the, Celtic Club is especially noted. Tho keen rivalry in all. grade® had resulted in an improvement in Die support accorded to the weekly club fixtures. The provision of -night, training facilities on the Childers road reserve is mentioned n’n (the renor+i. which expresses satisfaction with the use made of the farifitios the various clubs, and the debt owed 1 to the reserve ;tm-«tees and >ho the Hockev and Football Associations for the goodwill j n this eounection. The Refnt'ee«’ 4ssociiation is also thanked for Die services of its members and ineijcntal meetion is made of the -»-ahia.hle assistance .given bv referees in tfm nreriaration of matter for weekly broadcasts THE FINANCIAL BTDE■Regarding finance the report states: "Notiwithstanding a reduction in interest, and charges amounting to £132 16s, the year’s working resulted in a loss of £62 16s 6d, compared with tho loss of £llß 2s last- season. Proceeds of clu]> gates showed an increase of £25 6s 9d, which is highly satisfactory an t ] indicates additional interest in club fixtures. Tlie receipts ifirom Pepreslcnta tirve fixjturesi Were, unfortunately. Cower by £llO 10s, as compared with the previous year, this being partly due to the canriolla.tion c3f tihe annual/ fixture with Wairoa on June 3, and to the fact that Wajiroa. and East) Coastunions wore unable to arrange matches here until late in 'the season. A wet day for tho match with Auckland! was disastrous to the gate takings. “Negotiations for tlie reduction of tho union’s mortgage liabilities referred' to in last year’s report were brought to a, successful conclusion hy your committee taking advantage of existing legislation which brought a.bout an agreement between alt parties concerned for a. voluntary induction. As a result of these- steps, the union’s liabilities to the- Cricket Association the hoard of control, aud tho New Zealand Union have been re duced JTv a total amount of £731 11s and' the payments on account, of tho Ovaf have been reduced hy £132 16s per annum for five years, including tho past season, and a portion of the annual reduction is permanent. The thanks of the union are dliip to the committees of the other bodies con corned for the co-operation extended to your committee in reducing its liabilities to an amount that, p an ho met with reasonable returns from gates.’’ NEW SENIOR TEA AT. WAIKOHU SUB-UNION TO ENTER At a meeting of the AVnikoliu Rugby Sub-Union, held at> Te Karaka last evening, it was unanimously decided te enter a team in the Gisborne Union’s senior competition. Mr A, Allen, of AVlintatntm ' was appointed to wait up the Rugby Union, at its annual' meeting this evening in connection with the decision. N.Z VARSITIES TOUR TO SYDNEY NEGOTIATIONS NEAR FINALITY. (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright.) SYDNEY;, April 11. Negotiations/ for the visit of a combined New Zealand universities’ Rugby, union tea-m to Sydney next month have nearly reached finality. Jt is proposed that tho team -should play all its games in Sydney, and the fixtures will include matches iwitn Sydney University,- tests against combined.: An strati an universities, and probably a combined Australian-New Zealand universities game with an Australian, fifteen.