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The inclement weather last Saturday necessitated th-e abandonment of the match, Oiigo Representatives v. Old High School Bcyb, with v.hich the football season in Dunedin was to have been brought to a close.

The Welling lon i-ersresentafives' tour in the North Island co^t >J143 and that to Nelson and Maryborough £43. A Wellington paper makes a statement for

which, so far as I can Isam, there is no authority, that Tyler and M'Fike, who have been playing for Auckland in the representative matches of the past two years, have just taken up their residence in Otago. During the. larft four years the Auckland j Rugby Union's representatives "have "Lynx • points out) played 15 representative intertmion and interprovincial matches, winning 12 and di awing three, and scoring 202 points against 42. These do not include the match j against the returned New Zealand team of 1b97, when the Aucklanders won, or the fixtores against the Thames fifteen, who de- , feated Auckland three out of four times dur- I ing the period 'mentioned. j The committee of the Canterbury Rugby ' Union considered, at last week's meeting, the question of the refusal ot A. E. Phillips, balfback, to play in the match against Otago, for which he had been selected as one of the Canteroury representatives. Phillip?, when j celled before the committee, admitted that he | had dcclired to play. The reason was that j as he had hern loft out of the We 1 ling ton j match he had decided not to play football any j more during the season. He still thought | that he had not n:ade a mistake, and that he had a light to say whether h-e should play or nci. He bad not tried to prevent any j other member of the team from playing. When | Phillips had withdrawn it was resolved, after discussion, "That this committee views with disfavour A. E. Phillips' s conduct in refusing to play for hiri piovince when chosen, and would "strongly recommend that no future selectors consider his claim in selecting teams to lepresent Canterbury." The usual weekly meeting of the O.R.F.U. Committee was held on Monday. Present: Messrs Wiison (president), Morris, Duncan, Harris, Hutchison, Isaacs, Macassey. arid Campbell. It was decided to present the flags won in the Senior, Junior, a«d Third Cla&s srades a^ soon as tlie new flag for the Third Grade is finished. Consideration of Porteous's case liad again to be postponed, owing to the non-arrival of the evidence asked for from the Wellington Union.

The Camerbury Rugby Union has investigated charges of misconduct e gainst members of the Oonterbury B team at Leevton and Springston. The committee resolved that it was satisfied there were no grounds for the complaints of the licensee of the Springston Hotel, and thut the team had behaved in n gentlemanly manner. W. Spring, who made the charges, was requested to appear before the committee at the next meeting.