THE RUGBY GAME.
LEAGUE AND UNION. MATCHES WITH AUSTRALIA. Received January 15, 11.5 a.m. SYDNEY, Jan. 15. The central committee of the New South Wales Rugby League has deferred until its next meeting on January 30 consideration of a motion providing for the abolition of the Australian Rugby League Board of Control. The question of sending a team to New Zealand this year was also held over pending the decision concerning the Board of Control. The New Zealand League wrote asking the Board of Control to consider an arrangement for an Australian team, ar as an alternative a New South Wales team, to make a restricted tour of -New Zealand. The New Zealand body asked that the policy of the Australian authorities should not be one of “masterly inactivity,” but that a broad view should be taken and something done to assist the game in New Zealand. . Further progress in the .negotiations for a tour of Australia, by a. Maori Rugby Union team was made at a council meeting. After consultation with the other states concerned (Queensland, Victoria, and South Australia), the New South Wales management committee submitted a. suggested itinerary to the New Zealand Union.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 40, 15 January 1935, Page 7
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196THE RUGBY GAME. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 40, 15 January 1935, Page 7
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