RUGBY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 13 July 1927, Page 9

RUGBY.

TRAINING CAMPS FOR REPRESENTATIVE TEAMS. CANTERBURY WILL USE ITS OWN DISCRETION. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, July 13. The Canterbury Rugby Union last night discussed a letter from the New Zealand Union objecting to representative teams going into camp for training, and decided to receive the letter and to use its own discretion in the matter. Mr. S. F. Wilson said that he strongly disapproved of the practice of putting teams into camp. Mr. S. J. Dunne said that the Ranfurly Shield games were more like gladiatorial contests than football matches, according to reports. “If it is going on like this, the shield should be tipped over the wharf, and the sooner the better,” added Mr. Dunne. “At the same time, I think that the reports have been a bit exaggerated, and that the game between Hawke's Bay and Wairarapa was not what it was reported to have been.” Mr. A. E. MoPhail (chairman) said that Canterbury had played three hard games against Hawke’s Bay, and he could say that not one of them was any different from any other representative match. They had been good, keen games.

A COMPLAINT FROM WAUROA. WAJRQA. July 13. The Wairoa Rugby Sub-Union held a meeting last might .and several speakers spoke strongly regarding the senseless and unwarranted action of the New Zealand Rugby Union in sending the Maori AH Blacks on tour so early in the season, crippling the local union’s finances and seriously interfering with the local olub and representative football fixtures. Owing to several of their best players being absent Tapna and Nuhaka. two leading senior clubs, are practically unable to. carry on.