Football.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3865, 25 April 1906, Page 2

Football.

( « THE UNION'S PROFITSWellington, This day. Following are the profits made by the "All Blacks" since their selection in the early partof histyen-—Six matches in New Zealand, £501 ; Sydney, .£553; United Kingdom, France, and America, JG800S; total receipts outside of New Zealand and Australia, £14,971 ; and the expenditure, 1'6063. Tne match North v. South prior to the team leaving for Eng'and resulted in a profit of i'GI, The New Zealand Union Ins now a sum of .£l-2,000 on fixed deposit, and the value of its assets exceeds the liabilities ( by ,C 12,0-20. / As evidence of the growth of the j Union it is mentioned in the report that j during the past two years the number of committee meetings for the year Ims in- ■ creased from six in 1900 to twenty-nine j in IUOS, the latter constituting a record. ( The committee regrets that the number < of disqualifications shows no sign of j diminishing. Mr G. Dixon, manager, in his report recommends that in any future tours not more than twenty-iive matches be , played ; that the number of players be I restricted to not more than twenty- i seven; that two internationals should be ! played in the early part of the tour, and j that the men should have at least a week's Bpell before each international. |