ALL BLACKS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 September 1924, Page 5

ALL BLACKS

RESULTS OF MATCHES. TO BE DISTRIBUTED jy POST OFFICE.

(BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION ) WELLINGTON, Sept. 3. , 1 ostmaster-General announced to-day that the Post and Telegraph department is undertaking the distribution throughout New Zealand of the results of the All Blacks’ matches in Creat Britain and France. It is expected that the results will come forward on Thursdays and Sundays. The Minister has made an arrangement with the Press Association for the cable message announcing each match to be come the property of the Post and telegraph Department immediately on arrival in New Zealand. On the Thursdays the department will distribute the information to every telegraph or telephone office in the Dominion, and on SL S L ndays ifc/ will distributed through every exchange open at the time. Arrangements are also being made for any of the smaller offices whicn are connected with telephone exchanges open on Sundays to obtain information and furnish it on request, is the intention of the department to send the results received on Sundays to any office which can be reached on that day.

LETTER FJIOM LONDON REPRESENTATIVE. WELLINGTON, Sept. 4. In a letter to the New Zealand Rugby Union, Mr Wray, representative at Home, says that there is difficulty in arranging matches with France owing to the French Union having so many fixtures on hand. If New Zealand’s matches were played after New Year, France would only be able to play one match. Hopes were expressed by members of the committee that- New Zealand would send a team to Africa in 1926. New South Wales will send a team to New Zealand next year.