FOOTBALL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVI, Issue 229, 1 October 1902, Page 4

FOOTBALL.

PROPOSED VISIT TO ENGLAND

i'ress Association. Electric Telegraph

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Wellington, September 30,

At a meeting of the Management Committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union to-night correspondence was read with regard to the proposed visit of the New Zealand team to England.

The Agent-General wrote that he was much interested in the project. He had interviewed the football authorities in London, who appear to think that the question of professional ism would prove a serious obstacle, but the matter had been left to a subcommittee. Mr Rowland Hill, Secre tary of the English Union, wrote that the Union could not see its way to relax the professional regulations. The English Union would do everything to make the tour of the New Zealanders a success.

Tito letters were discussed at great length, Finally it was decided that the affiliated Unions be advised thab it is possible under the existing rules to send a team to England; that the Unions be requested to supply the names of players who would be willing to make one of the team ; that the Secretary apply to the English Union for information regarding the fixtures and the estimated receipts and cost of maintaining a team of 25 men in England for three months.