Rugby Growlers.

NZ Truth, Issue 149, 25 April 1908, Page 3

Rugby Growlers.

/"Patrons of Rugby are saying nothing of the Rugby Union for taking on that three years' lease of the.Miramar grounds, •which means; of course, that they will .be compelled to journey further afield to witness the dainty titcbits of their .favorite spprt. If the;Riigby Union can arrange for the- smooth transport of intending, "patrons -to Miramar by an adequate? supply "ofMratncarsvfceing always on hand, .'the •grumbling ,novr in evidence will bfc^aterialfy ana the .attendances are'vnot likely .to pe'affectedto the jextent.prtSicted: Should, however, :have a 'repetition of, '. the rf s6andalous stateybf "tilings . when Pluriderland' was., iflrst^sprung "upon the public, we may look ' Sox -Rugbytfootball in* Wellington bein^ as/ dead-as ,Julius\Caesar 'in 'the covtrse oi'^i year/or^TiWo. The JRugby Union should jjfc-/ jmemDeritha't half measures are of *no? earthly account when the matter ofjj|ttan-SI sporting h'tindreds, nay, thousandSj/ol people every' Saturday^wor-four ;or liye •months Jri ctheyear, JSas :to he. 'dealt Vith^ -it nhe Union, is alive -to its/i own*interests, it' will insist upon/the/Cor- 1 poration authorities making .adequate'pro- • ..Tision m the way of locomotion as will./■enable every person who desires to wit-, ness r the competitions to travel with* something like decent comfort. The tavariciousness of" the Park directors very prqH perly influenced the Rugby Union m dc-' dining 'to be made the milch coW'for the? monejF-grabbing syndicate any longer^, and •the pity of it is that this step Was note taken years ago. Had the Union told. 1 the directors to go -to blazes with. t.heiV. outrageous conditions and set about acqulring.grounds of its own wEich could have been purchased ten or twelve years ago on very .favorable conditions, its position to-day would .have been the strong.est of any Rugby body m the Dominion, i excepting, of course, that boodle-hoarding 1 ■institution, the N.Z.K.U. The public is/ growling now about going to Miiamar,> i and threatens to stop away altogether m - I 'fact; but. as I have pointed out, if "the j transport facilities are only up to 'the ' "knocker"— and there is no reason why

they shouldn't be-^lts enthusiasm lor the.i] winter game will -qui9kiy stifle all? pbjec-sj tions on the score ofc,dßstance and .a lit— 3 tie personal di^comfont. ' I