RUGBY FOOTBALL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22069, 27 September 1933, Page 9

RUGBY FOOTBALL

SOUTH ISLAND TEAM

ALLEGATION OF NEGLECT DISPUTED. (Pee United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 26. The gross takings at the Rugby match between the North and South Island at Athletic Park on Saturday were £I6OO. This information was imparted to a meeting of the Management Committee of the Wellington Rugby Union to-night by the chairman (Mr J. Prendeville). The chairman referred to the remark made by Mr Moloney at the last meeting of the Management Committee of the Canterbury Union to the effect that the South. Island team had not been properly looked after in Wellington. The Wellington Union, Mr Prendeville said, had made a point every time the inter-island match had been played here of appointing members of the Management Committee as managers of both teams, and this practice had been followed last week. Mr H. D. Morgan said he thought Mr Moloney’s idea was that a manager should have met the South Island team at Christchurch.

Mr Prendeville said this would not have been much good, as members of the South Island team came by different routes. “ Statements of the sort that Mr Moloney made are very unfair,” the chairman concluded, “ and are apt to provoke bitter replies.”