RUGBY FOOTBALL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 29 August 1923, Page 6

RUGBY FOOTBALL

ANOTHER INCIDENT AT WANGANUI Preor Afisocnaitou) WANGANUI, This Day. , A- further upheaval in local Rugby ■ Union circles occurred yesterday when 1 it was announced that the majority of the players in the team that recently f toured the Auckland province would not i play against Hawke’s Bay to-day on the {{round that the. members of the 1 curing c team had passed a resolution riot to play ) in any further matches this season with * Peina, Potaka, Hartley, and Kingi, the four Maori players recently suspended d by the'Union for refusing to travel with the representative team. A special meeting of the Rugby Union was held at noon, and it was decided to despatch a delegation to wait on two ot the leading \ players, it being thought that if they 4 could .be. won over, the bulk of the opposition would disappear. e A meeting of the .Management commit-, c tee was held in committee last evening, | " and on resuming in open meeting it was! reported that the players had signified their intention to play and 'that it. had j y been resolved to return to the writers j their letters of resignation.

CANTERBURY TEAM’S YTSIT TO NELSON (By Telegraph —Special to The Mail). CHRISTCHURCH, Tins Day. 1 At last night’s meeting of the Canter- 1 bury Rugby Union the Nelson Union for-] warded the £SO guarantee in connection! with- the visit of the Canterbury team, j The attendance at the match, the letter; stated, was not so great as expected, and ■ the Union was in debit to a smr.h - amount. The letter thanked the Can- - lerbury Union and stated that the visit. ; and behaviour of the team both on and off the field was much appreciated. i The 'Marlborough Union also forwarded a guarantee of £4O and expressed appro-1 ,■ cia.tion of the visit of the Canterbury re- j presentative team. i, The letters were received. . . f ‘lt’s a very satisfactory report," said [ the president, after the report of Canterbury’s northern tour had been read. I ‘■'l've heard something about shields and I’m not altogether sorry in one way that j we lost the Ranfurly Shield. Neverthe-. . less, it was hard luck to lose it by one J point.” ‘