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FOOTBALL.

At the meeting of the New Zealand J Sugby Union in Wellington the unwill- 1 \* igness of the Union '. to assist touring * earns of smaller unions, such as Taranaki ras discussed. Mr G. C. Fache (Welling-' !: on) put hi 3 union's case in a nutshell by * tating that the safety of the New Zea- | and Union lay in hot attempting to in- ;■* erfere with the financial administration. * pf the affiliated unions, which in this case ras outside the New Zealand Union's. * urisdiction. The large unions, taken, as 1 i whole, had shown their consideration 'or smaller unions by agreeing that chal- l enging teams for the Ranfurly Shield I should be refunded reasonable transit ex- ] penses out of gate money. Coming to ' bhe larger unions individually, the reason ' that Wellington had not done much in this direction was simply that the Wellington Union had not the money.

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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 94, 6 May 1903, Page 2

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FOOTBALL. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 94, 6 May 1903, Page 2

FOOTBALL. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 94, 6 May 1903, Page 2