THE ALL BLACKS.

Wairarapa Age, 7 June 1928, Page 5

THE ALL BLACKS.

DEMAND FOR LONGER REPORTS SOUTHLAND COMPLAINT INVERCABGILL, June 6. That the reports of the All Blacks’ matches were most unsatisfactory and inadequate in view of the national interest in the doings of the New Zealanders was an opinion expressed today by Mr. J>. K. Torrance, president of the Southland Rugby Union. He said that the accounts of the matches were scarcely worth reading except to see who won. ‘‘ We do not know which of our team are making good, or what the South Africans think of them,” said Mr. Torrance. “We have had practically nothing in the way of comment except that the All Blacks were beaten for the ball in the serums. I can only express the hope that the grossly inadequate reports we have so far received will bo improved as soon as word can be sent from the authorities responsible for the quality and quantity of the messages.”—(P.A.)

MOVE BY MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE WELLINGTON, June 6. Strong dissastisfaetion was expressed by members of the Management Committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union this evening at the paucity of the reports of the mac-hes played by the Now Zealand team in South Africa which were appearing in the New Zealand papers. The chairman stated that when manager of tho 1924 New Zealand team he had received a cablegram from New Zealand voicing tho same complaint, and interviewed the representatives of tho Press Association in London, who had at once promised to see that fuller reports were cabled. Members pointed out that when important tennis, cricket, golf, boxing and athletic events were held in various parts of the world, adequate reports were, sent out, and yet the doings of the New Zealand team in which almost tho entire population of the Dominion were keenly interested were being reported in the most perfunctory manner. On the motion of Mr. Dean it was decided that Messrs Dean, E. Wylie and T. A. Fletcher should wait upon the Newspaper Proprietors Association, the editors of the “Dominion” and the “Evening Post n and the manager of the Press Association, in order to see if fuller reports could not be provided for the public.—(P.A.).