RUGBY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 450, 16 December 1930, Page 4

RUGBY

AUSTRALIAN COMMENT BRITISH TOUR PROFITS. NEW ZEALAND CRITICISED. Received Dec. 15, 11.25 p.m. SYDNEY, Dec. 15. Commenting on the action of the New Zealand Rugby Union in insisting upon Australian unions remitting io New Zealand 40 per cent, of the gross receipts of the British Rugby matches played here, the Sun newspaper directs attention to the fact that New Zealand derived an enormous profit of £30,0000 from that tour, and adds that it was confidently expected that the Australian States would have been permitted to retain the whole of the small profits made here, thus enabling Queensland and Victoria to balance their ledgers. “The reported professions of the New Zealand Union that it was keen to foster the game in Queensland and Victoria are shown to be merely matters of words. New Zealand’s attitude calls for the strongest criticism and is indeed likely to mar the friendly relations existing between Australian and New Zealand bodies.”