LEAGUE FOOTBALL.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19665, 27 August 1935, Page 11

LEAGUE FOOTBALL.

AN AUSTRALIAN TEAM. ' TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND, TO LEAVE SEPTEMBER 18. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. copyright SYDNEY, Aug. 26. Following a letter from the New Zealand Rugby League the Board of Control has decided to send a team of twenty players to New Zealand, leaving Sydney on September 18. The selectors will choose the team to-night. RADIOPHONE CONVERSATION. BOARD MEMBERS LISTEN. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright SYDNEY, Aug. 26. The personnel of the Rugby League team to tour New Zealand probably will be announced to-morrow, when the board also will meet. Members of the Australian board this afternoon listened in with earphones while their secretary, Mr H. Miller, conducted a radiophone conversation with Mr W. O. Carlaw, of the New Zealand League, in Auckland. Details of the tour, also the financial arrangements, were discussed. The reception was extremely clear. The conversation referred to in the cablegram related only to the financial terms and itinerary of tho tour, stated Mr C. A. Snedden, chairman of the New’ Zealand Rugby League, last evening. After tho Australian Board of Control had reached a decision the suggested itinerary whould he discussed at a meeting of the New Zealand League on Thursday evening. Owing to the extension of the 1 New South Wales club competitions, the tour had been curtailed, and the Australian team would not now tour in the south. Tho first game probably would be played In Auckland on September 21, and at least two lest matches would 'be played in Auckland.