LEAGUE PLAYERS.
A CANTERBURY PROTEST. CHRISTCHURCH, June 13. The following resolution was carried by the Canterbury Centre of the Rugby League: “In the opinion of this Rugby League the action of the English Rugby League in breaking the contract existing between the controlling bodies in Australia and New Zealand and the English Rugby League is inimical to the best interests of the code, and this centre calls upon the New Zealand Council to get into touch at once with Australia, with a view to bringing about such regulations as will tend t.o defeat the object of the English Rugby League, which appears to be an endeavour to get the best colonial players to the detriments of the code in Australasia.”—(P.A.). ACTION IN AUSTRALIA. CONFERENCE DESIRED. (Received This Day, 1.27 a.m.). SYDNEY, June 13. A meeting of the New South Wales Rugby League considered the breaking of the residential qualification by the English League and decided to get into touch with the League in Quenesland and New Zealand with a view to arriving at a common complaint, which will be forwarded to the English League as soon ns possible, in order to prevent further action by agents of English clubs in their object of securing Australian players. It was further decided that the English League be requested to defer the lifting of the ban until the English team was in Australia next season, when it was hoped that a conference of the managers of the team and representatives of Now South Wales, Queensland and New Zealand would be able to reach a satisfactory agreement. Mr G. Bland has been selected to complete the Rugby Union team tour of England.—(P.A.),
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Wairarapa Age, 14 June 1927, Page 5
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