BROWNLIE TO LEAD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20108, 29 March 1928, Page 8

BROWNLIE TO LEAD

ALL BLACKS ON TOUR RUGBY UNION’S DECISION JTICHOLLS TO BE VICE-CAPTAIN. [ Per Press Association. J WELLINGTON, March 28. The Management Committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union to-night appointed M. J. Brownlie (Hawke ’s Bay), captain of the New Zealand team to tour South Africa this season and M. L. Nicholls (Wllingon) vice-captain. It was decided that the selection committee for the lour should consist of the captain, vice-captain and manager (Mr W. Hornig) ami two players to be elected by the team. Maurice Brownlie was a member of the New Zealand team which toured great Britain and France in 1924. He proved his capabilities as a Rugby leader by captaining the Hawke’s Bay team with such success from 1922 until 1927.

Mark Nicholls, the vice-captain, played in all three test matches against the South African team in New Zea land in 1921, and was also a member

of the New Zealand team which toured Great Britain in 1924. The union decided to cable to England inviting an English team Iq tour Jtew Zealand in 1936. RUGBY TOURISTS TEAMS FROM OVERSEAS ENGLAND. FRANCE. AND NEW SOUTH WALES. [ Per I’re=s A.-tce'ition. ] WELLINGTON, March 28. It will come as good news to Rugby players and followers 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 year following. The management committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union to-night considered a cablegram from Mr Cecil Wray, the Union’s representative in England in committee. Upon resuming in open meeting the chairman (Mr N. S. Dean) made the following statement : “It has been decided that the committee views with regret the decision of the International Board not t*» send a team to New Zealand in 1930 and has decided th*«t an invitatin be extended to the English Union ao s< nd 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 dthat Mr E. G. Khaw, manager of the New .South Wales team, had received advice from Mr C. F. Rutherford, international sec retaxy of the French Rugby Federal i< that a French team will accept an i 3 vitation to visit the Dominion in 1931. Mr W. Hornig, manager of the New Zealand team for South Africa, will confer 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.