REWARDS OF OFFICE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17238, 19 April 1930, Page 15

REWARDS OF OFFICE

RUGBY ADMINISTRATION CKRISTCHURCH COMPLAINT The Star Rugby writer says much comment has been aroused among footballers generally by a paragraph thai appeared in a. Wellington 'paper a few days ago to the effect that the New Zealand Rugby Union had decided to invite a prominent New South Wales Rugby legislator, his wife and son. lo visit tho Dominion as guests of the New Zealand Cnion while, the. British team is here, "This invitation, if it has gone, forward, appears to be overstepping the hounds of Rugby administration, where is this sort, of thing going lo stop Complaints are now frequent enough about Ihi! expense of entertaining teams, and officials attached to those teams. If good service, to the game, is lo be obtained only by such rewards as these the union' will have to be completely overhauled.

"The management committee has ;ip. pa rent ly forgotten its duties. Members are elected to a position of trust, and their duty is to manage Rugby, not to lx' a hospitality committee. It. is recalled that a man prominent in New Zealand Rugby made » trip to Australia last- season 'with the New- Zealand learn, and was Iho guest of the Now South Wales Union. I' was not necessary for him to go. Then- was a capid ie manager, a man well able to speak on behalf of the Xew Zealand authorities at any conference if such was necessary, Is'the latest move a repayment in kind?"