FOOTBALL.
REINSTATEMENT OF PROFES-
SIONALS
ENGLISH RUGBY UNION REFUSES
AUTHORITY
WELLINGTON, April 22
At this evening's meeting of the ■Management Committee of the Wellington Rugby Football Union, the following lettbr from the secretary of the English Rugby Union was read: I beg to inform you that a special meeting of our full committee has been held, at which the position of the Northern Union players was considered. At that meeting the views of your union were carefully gone into. My committee decided that they cannot recommend "to a general meeting of clubs any alteration in the professional rules. I would point out that without the rules being altered they haven't the right to delegate further powers of reinstatement to your union.
The matter will be discussed by the Council of the New Zealand Union at its next meeting.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17552, 23 April 1919, Page 5
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138FOOTBALL. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17552, 23 April 1919, Page 5
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