INTER-ISLAND RUGBY GAME

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1933, Page 7

INTER-ISLAND RUGBY GAME

RECEIPTS AT THE GATES £l5OO.

CHAIRMAN ANSWERS CRITICISM.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night.

The gross receipts at the Rugby match between the North and South Islands at Athletic Park on Saturday were £l5OO. This information was imparted at a meeting of the management committee of the Wellington Rugby Union this evening by the chairman, Mr. J. Prendeville. The chairman referred to a 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 at Wellington. The Wellington Union, said Mr. Prendeville, had made a point every time the interIsland match had been played at Wellington 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 the manager should have met the South Island team at Christchurch. Mr. Prendeville said this would not have been of much good as the 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.’’