TOURS PROPOSED.

Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17389, 29 March 1928, Page 5

TOURS PROPOSED.

ENGLISH AND FRENCH VISITS. WARATAHS MAY ALSO COME. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 29. It will come as good news to Rugby players and followers of the game to hear that an English team may visit New Zealand in 1930, and that it is almost certain that a French team will tour the Dominion in the followingyear. The Management Committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union last night considered a cablegram from Mr Cecil Wray, the union's representative in England. Upon resuming in open meeting the chairman, Mr S. S. Dean, made the following statement :-*- "It has been decided that the committee views with regret the decision of the International Board not to send a team to New Zealand in 1930, and has decided that an invitation be extended to the English Union to send a team to New Zealand and New South Wales in 1930, advice having been received that the English Union is holding- a meeting on April 13."

Mr Dean further stated that Mr E. G. Shaw, manager of the New South Wales team, had received advice from Mr C. F. Rutherford, international secretary of the French Rugby Federation, that a French team will accept an invitation to visit the Dominion in 1931. Mr W. Hornig, manager of the New Zealand team for South Africa, confers with the New South Wales Rugby Union in Sydney next month, regarding the possibility of a New South Wales team visiting the Dominion this season.