THE "ALL BLACKS."
By Electric Telegraph. — Copyrigß*. (llocoivo.l May 29, 5.30 a.m.)
LONDON, May !2S.
Tho Ilugbj' Union at a general meeting ovorwnelmingly rejected Air Byrne's motion that proiessioualism existed and that tho committee had not consistently enforced the piotcsbional laws.
[Last January the Scottish Rugby Union cancelled its fixture with England because the English Union sanctioned payments to tho "All Blacks" and Wallabies of one guinea a week to each man, besides his expenses. Tho Scottish committee unanimously opposed these payments as being contrary to the ' principle of ' amateur football, anil declared that they amounted to professionalism.]
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Taranaki Herald, Issue 13917, 29 May 1909, Page 2
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98THE "ALL BLACKS." Taranaki Herald, Issue 13917, 29 May 1909, Page 2
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