DOMINION RUGBY.
N.Z. ANNUAL MEETING
(by telegraph—press association.) WELLINGTON, May 6. Motions carried at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union included one of regret at the International Board’s, decision not to establish an Imperial Board, and urging the English Union to call a conference of English, Irish, 'Welsh and- Scottish Unions, together with the delegates from New Zealand, New South Wales and South Africa, with a; view to establishing an Imperial Board; another recommending the Management Committee to consider the advisability of playing a match annually between minor and country unions of each island. It was -decided to send a Maori team to tour the minor unions this season, this tour to take the place of grants to the unions, except in exceptional cases. In connection with trial matches for the selection of a team for South Africa, it was agreed that East Coast he combined with Hawke’s Bay and Poverty Bay for a game' at Napier. A motion to consider favourably the establishing of a Dominion insurance scheme was defeated.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 6 May 1927, Page 7
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174DOMINION RUGBY. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 6 May 1927, Page 7
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