FIVE-YEAR RUGBY PLAN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 12 April 1934, Page 5

FIVE-YEAR RUGBY PLAN

BIG TOURS AHEAD MR DEAN VIEWS FUTURE (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. “Wo can say we are now starting operations on a five-year Rugby plan,” said Mr S. S. Dean, chairman of the management committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union, at a meeting. “Th e New Zealand leant is to tour Australia this year, and England in the following year In 1936 an Australian team is coming hero, in 1937 a. South African team will probably visit New Zealand, and in 1938 we will have to consider a return trip to Australia. "There are indications, too, that Rugby problems generally are working toward a definite conclusion,” he said. “There is very much more ease now than ten years ago.” In connection with the All Blacks English tour it was announced that subject to financial arrangements being satisfactory, England had approved of the team returning (o New Zealand via Canada, am) playing matches there. Japan had also been requesting that the- All Blacks should play there on their return from England, but it was stated (hat as Ibis would make the tour unduly strenuous, the invitation would have to he declined. The terms of competition between Australia and New Zealand Ibis season for the Bledisloe Cup came before the meeting when a letter was received from the New South Wales Union. The letter was in reply to a suggestion from New Zealand Hint both 'Test matches to be played in Australia should count in deciding which country should hold the Cup. Tt was stated that should each country win one Test, it meant that New Zealand, having neither lost nor wot, the Cup for tiro year, would he entitled to hold it until such time as it, had definitely lost it