Board or Commission ?

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6834, 15 April 1932, Page 8

Board or Commission ?

INTERNATIONAL RUGBY CONTROL SHOULD AFFILIATION BE RETAINED? Per Press Association. ' WELLINGTON, April 14. At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union to-day, the President, Mr S. S. Dean, in the course of his address, said it was felt by them all that the time had surely arrived when New Zealand, South Africa and Australia should have a vote on the body that would be supreme in the control and destinies of the game. Although the claims of the overseas Unions had been pressed for a number of years, the best offer from the International Board was a proposed Rugby Commission. Ho was of the opinion that New Zealand should, with the other overseas Dominions, press their claims for a seat on a regular and properly constituted body who would bo paramount in the control of Rugby football. It was for the meeting to decide whether or not New Zealand should refuse or accept the Commission. Should it be accepted, they must, withdraw their affiliation to the Rugby Football Union and it might be that they were grasping the shadow and losing the substance. The Rugby Football Union, he was sure, had done and was doing its utmost to see fair treatment meted out to the Dominion’s Unions and until such time as a body was set up that would satisfy the Dominions it might be better to retain the affiliation with England.