INTERNATIONAL RUGBY.
INVITATION TO BRITISH CONFERENCE. Wellington, May 14. At a meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union executive tonight, Messrs S. Dean and Wylie were appointed a deputation to wait upoq the authorities to ask that a half-holiday he granted to civil servants on tlm date of the North v. South Possible-Probable match in Wellington. It was decided that the Maori match played in Auckland last Monday for the Te Mori rose bowl should be treated as trial match for the All Black selection. An invitation was received by the New Zealand Rugby Union from the International Rugby Board to send representatives to a conference on Rugby matters, such conference to be heild in Loudon, and be attended by direct representatives of several colonial unions. A request was made that the board should he furnished before October next with particulars of any subjects which they wished to discuss. December next was suggested as the date for the conference. A. sub-committee was appointed to consider remits received from various unions and to frame a report.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2733, 15 May 1924, Page 2
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