NEW ZEALAND RUGBY UNION
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
[BV TELECRAFH.—PR3SS association.] "WELLINGTON, Wednesday. At a meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union executive to-night a deputation was appointed to'wait- upon the authorities to ask that %'■ half holiday be granted to civil servants on the date of the North v. South Island Possible-Probable match in Wellington-, a It was decided that the Maori match played in Auckland last Monday should be treated a3 a trial match for All Black selection. ■ An invitation was received from the International Rugby Board.to send i-epresen-tatives to a conference on Rugby, matters, such conference to be s held in London. December next : was suggested as the ,date for the conference. _ - The chairman, Mr. S. Dean, said they should certainly see that they were represented at the conference; •which was ■,one" of < the '■ things they had been pressing; for years. It was agreed that the'invitation' to the conference be'accepted. i It was further resolved that New South Wales '.and South Africa should-be; communicated with and asked'to have their remits sent to England. August- 16, ; and that copies of their remits be'.forwarded to the New Zealand Union- . ■ ... . .',, ..." - -. . ..,..■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18709, 15 May 1924, Page 9
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