A RUGBY FOOTBALL TEAM FOR ENGLAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12472, 1 October 1902, Page 5

A RUGBY FOOTBALL TEAM FOR ENGLAND.

CP.br UffrTED Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 30. At a meeting of the Management Committee of the New Zealand. Rugby Union to-night correspondence was read with regard to the proposed visit of a New Zealand team to.England. The Agent-general wrote that he was much interested in the project. He had interviewed the football authorities in London, who appeared to thinlc the question of professionalism would prove a sorious . obstacle, but the matter had been left to a sub-eommitteo. Mr Rowland Hill (secretary of the English Union) wrote that the union could not see its way to relax the professional regulations The English Union would do everything to make the tour of the New Zealarcders a etioee-ss. The letters were disoussed at great length. It was finally decided that affiliated unions bp advised that it is possible under tho existing rules to send a team to England, and that the unions be requested to supply tlie names of players who would be willing to make one of a team; that the secretary apply to the English Union for information regarding fixtures, estimated receipts, and cost of maintaining a team of 25 men in England for three "mouths.