FOOTBALL GROUNDS
RUGBY v. LEAGUE. MONOPOLY OF LANCASTER PARK? (Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, May 14. A suggestion that if the New Zealand Rugby Union does not grant tho use of Rugby grounds to the NcXv Soirji Wales touring Ixuigue team in September next, the Australian League will retaliate by refusing the use of the Sydney rnckrt ground and possibly other major grounds under their control of the touring Maori Rugby team, and other New Zealan«l Rugby teams, was made at' a meeting of the Executive of the Canterbury League. The suggestion w:« s m ule following the report of the Serrrtnrv that he hnd written to the Park Board of Control, :»sk?ntf f«»r the use of Lancaster Park on the Saturday in September when the New South Wales team would be playing a match in the ci tv. The Lancaster Park Board had advised, in rrph that it regretted it bad no power b grant the re-
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Grey River Argus, 15 May 1935, Page 3
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