FOOTBALL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19866, 14 June 1927, Page 8

FOOTBALL

' FIJIAN TEAM VISIT TO AUCKLAND JKIP TO NEW ZEALAND IN AUGUST , (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 13. A Fijian Rugby football team will visit Auckland during August, returning the visit of the Auckland University footballers made to Fiji last season. The touring team will be mostly composed of Australian and New Zealand players resident in the Islands. The team will play at Auckland, Hamilton and Rotorua.

CANTERBURY RESENTMENT

RESOLUTION AS A PROTEST CO-OPERATION WITH AUSTRALIA. [Per Press Association.! CHRISTCHURCH, June 13. The following resolution was carried by the Canterbury Centre of the Rugby League: “In the opinion of the Rugby League the action of the English Rugby League in breaking the contract existing between the controlling bodies of 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 the view of bringing about such regulations as will tend to diefeat the object of the English Rugby League, which appears to be endeavouring to get the best colonial players to the detriment of the code in Australia Ofid New Zealand.”