RUGBY FOOTBALL.
PROFESSIONAL (QUESTION
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, April 22. At this evening’s meeting of Die Management Committee of the Wellington Rugby Football Union, the following letter from the secretary of the English Rugby Union was read: —“I beg to inform you that a special meeting of our full committee has boon held, at which the position of the Northern Union players was considered. At that meeting the views of your Union wore carefully gone into. My committee regret that they cannot recommend to the general meeting of the clubs any alteration in the professional rules. I would point out that without the rules being altered they have not the right to delegate further powers of reinstatement to your Union. Tho matter will be discussed by the Council Grand Union at its nekt meeting.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1516, 23 April 1919, Page 2
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134RUGBY FOOTBALL. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1516, 23 April 1919, Page 2
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