RUGBY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 March 1929, Page 5

RUGBY.

CONTROLLING RODY MEETS. PR EPAR ATIONS - FOR. COMING SEASON. (B> 'L'elsgraph—P'.ess Association.) WELLINGTON, March 6. A meeting of the management committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union was held to-night. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union is to be held on Mav 16.

The New South Wales Union wrote asking if it would be possible for the tour of the New Zealand team for Australia this year to be extended by an additional week in order to permit of a Saturday match being played in Melbourne on a date suitable to the Victorian Union. In the discussion which followed it was agreed that the New Zealand Union must help Victoria and Queensland to encourage the game at this stage. It was unanimously agreed that the request of the New South Wales Union to extend the New Zealand team’s tour of Australia this year to six weeks should be agreed to. It was pointed out that it would be necessary to appoint the New Zealand selectors early this season, as it would be too late to wait for the annual meeting of the Union on May 16. It was decided to call for nominations'for the position of selectors, the nominations to be in the hands of the Union by April 3. Some discussion took place as to whether the North v. South Island match should played before the New Zealand team left lor Australia, but it was decided that it would bo wiser to postpone this annual fixture till the end of the season. It was decided that a trial match should be held prior to the team’s departure from Wellington on Juno 3. It was decided to leave the drawing up of a set of representative fixtures for submission to the delegates at the annual meeting of the Union to Mr. S. U. Wilson (Canterbury) and J. Prendeville (Wellington). The finance committee reported that (the British team would arrive in the ! Dominion, via Panama on June 6, 1950, and that 19 matches would be played in New Zealand, including four test games and a. match against a Maori fifteen, while eight matches would be played in Australia. The tour was anticipated to cost the New Zoaipnd Union £II,OOO, apart from the expenses of the Australian portion of the tour, for which negotiations were now being made with the New South \\ ales Union. The report was adopted. it was decided to write to Mr. James Baxter congratulating him upon his appointment to the management ol the iiritish Rugby team which is to tour New Zealand in 1930. i It was also decided to suggest to the International Board, through the English Union, that the time would be opportune to take advantage of Mr. Baxter’s presence in the Dominion to hold a Rugby conference in New Zealand with a view to discussing national tours, uniformity of rules and rulings, and matters appertaining to the welfare of Rugby generally, and the New Zealand Union suggests that invitations should be extended the various Australian Unions, the South African Rugby Board, and the Rugby Union in Canada, to send delegates to the conference.