INTER=ISLAND RUGBY

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 27 September 1933, Page 3

INTER=ISLAND RUGBY

Q, WELLINGTON’S £ISOO GATE. SOUTHERN CRITIC ANSWERED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 26. The gross receipts at tlie Rugby match between tlie North and South Islands at Athletic Pork on Saturday were £150(1. This information was imparted a.t a meeting of the management committee of the Wellington Rugby Union this evening by the chairman, Mr J. Prcndeville. The chairman referred to a remark, made by Air Moloney at the last meeting the. management commrttee ot the Canterbury union to the effect that, the South Island team. had not- been properly looked after in Wellington. r lhe Wellington union, said Mr Prendeville, had made a ixfint every tune the inter-island match had been played at Wellington, of appointing members of the management committee as managers of both teams, and this practice had been followed last week. Mr H. D. Morgan said he thought Mr Molonev’s idfea- was that the manager .should have met the South Island team at Christchurch. Mr Prendeville said this would not have been of much good as the members of the South Island team came bv different routes. “Statements of the sort- that Mr Moloney made are verv unfair ” the chairman and a re apt to provoke bitter replies.