RUGBY FOOTBALL.

Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17365, 29 March 1928, Page 2

RUGBY FOOTBALL.

ENGLISH AND FRENCH TEAMS. TOUR OF N.Z. EXPECTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. At a meeting of the Management Committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union to-night Mr S. S. Dean made the following statement: "it has been decided that the committee views with regret the decision of the International Board not to send a team to Now Zealand in 1930, and has decided that an invitation be extended to the English Union to send 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 that Mr E. G. Shaw, manager of the New South Wales team, had received advice that a French team will accept an invitation to visit the Dominion in 1931. Mr W. Hornig, manager of the New Zealand team for South Africa, will confer with he New South Wales Rugby Union in Sydney next month regai'dhlg the possibility of a New South Wales te/im visiting the Dominion this season.

THE SOUTH AFRICAN TOUR. NO JERSEY-COLLECTING. WELLINGTON, Thursday. The management committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union has prohibited the All Slacks from exchanging jerseys with other players. "It is a silly "practice," said Mr Dean. "Some players return from these tours with •iO jerseys, and what can they do with them?" Players are to be provided with badges which they may present to the South Africans.

COASTAL SUB-UNIONS

MAY UNITE. WELLINGTON, Thursday. \ letter has been received by the New Zealand Rugby Union from the Maniapoto sub-union stating that, as the result of conferences held last year and at the beginning of this year between Kawhia, Tainui and Maniapoto, they proposed to form a union composed" of the sub-unions on the coast line north of Taranaki. "The Kawhia sub-union really belongs to nobody," I tie letter continued, "as they are partly in the King Country and partly in Waikato, and the Tainui subunion is partly in North Taranaki and partly in the King Country, and consequently nobody cares how they get on.'' It was decided to request the Maniapolo sub-union to call a conference, which had been agreed to by the King Country union, and that, if necessary, a member of the management committee of the New Zealand Union would attend in order to arrive at a solution of the problem.