RUGBY AFFAIRS

Northern Advocate, 4 May 1932, Page 7

RUGBY AFFAIRS

ANOTHER SENIOR TEAM. PUT WAT'S APPLICATION, FREE ADMISSION FOR UNEMPLOYED. Another senior team has joined the ranks of Rugby in Whangarei, and the nomination from the Pipiwai Club was received by the Management Committee of the local union last evening. This now brings the number of teams in the senior competition to six. Mr C. F. Collins presided over a large gathering of delegates, and reported on behalf of the Insurance Committee that in the past £.l - a week had been granted for a period of 16 weeks. It was now proposed to offer 25/ a week for the first four weeks, and £1 a week for the next eight weeks. Mr Steele moved that the benefits stand as previously, but an amendment moved by Mr McLeod that the Insurance Committee’s offer be accepted was carried. The chairman reported that the union ’s offer giving free admission to the unemployed men and their families to all matches played under its jurisdiction had been well patronised. All men with a bona fide pass, he said, were welcome, and he stressed the point that the union would aid the unemployed in every possible' way. Mr Gariy’s motion that all members of the unemployed be allowed to enter the ground free, providing they produced sufficient authority, was carried. It Avas decided to issue season tickets to life members and members of the Judicial Committee as well as others, including those who in the past had assisted the union financially in preparing the fine grounds at Rugby Park and at Hikurangt.

The committee thanked Mrs Mitchell, of the Arcadia Tea Rooms, for her generous offer of a silver cup for the senior team scoring the most points in the competition. If held by the same team for three consecutive seasons it becomes the property of that team.

Messrs Collins, Watson, Britland, Fyfe and Poavcll were appointed a committee to make preliminary arrangements for the art union. Before the meeting closed, Mr Collins paid a tribute to the hard-work-ing Whangaruru team, which, he said, Avas the first all-Maori team to ' compete under the auspices of the Whangarei Rugby Hnion.