FOOTBALL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 15 May 1912, Page 8

FOOTBALL.

NEW ZEALAND RUGBY UNION. 8Y PSLEGRAPH-PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, May 14. The management committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union met tonight. An appeal for a contribution towards a fund for the purchase of pictures for a national art gallery was referred to the annual meeting. Wellington Rugby Union wrote asking that as the amount of £400 had been half paid oif, the committee should consider j-the question of reducing the rate of interest from 3 per cent, to 2-i per The amount outstanding is £195. The-matter was referred to the incoming committee. The disqualification of twelve months imposed on T. Rapson, by the Wellington Rugby Union, was made general. „ An application by E. R. Watkins for reinstatement was declined. The Poverty Bay Association wrote urging the reinstatement of players in that district as a check to the growth of the Northern League game. It was well known, said the letter, that football in Hawke's Bay last season was a fiasco, owing to the strides made by the league game. It was reasonable to assume that a number of smaller unions had already been approached, with perhaps a prospect of an early representative match, ; ind a return Van;e, to induce them. The letter was referred to the annual meeting.