"ALL BROWN" FOOTBALL TEAM.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 911, 2 September 1910, Page 4

"ALL BROWN" FOOTBALL TEAM.

■■■:■ DESIKE TO TOUR- BRITAIN. ' ; . ,1 ..\ At the meeting of the New Zealand;. Riigby pnion last evening a letter woe '■' received W. ..T. Pa'rata, , who . was manager of the Maori team that recently- toured Australia and New Zealand, in - reference ■ to a proposed Bri-' ■■ tish tour by a Maori team. On behalf of • the Maori Committee Mr. Parata v asked . the union to authorise a Maori tour of Great Britain in 1911,: to: be conducted 1 on purely amateur "lines. The, .team "' •would constet of . about . twenty-seven players, for. the -most part members-: of' the Maori team, which recently toured Australia and New Zealand. The record of this team on'.the .field proved that'its'\' : members would-be able to . bold -their . : - own., Their-behaviour ■_- off ,the field -had . been"so good, that 'there need,','be; , no anxiety in that respect.* - The. committee; was approaching''leading Maoris and was ..; confident ■; of being -hole to finance the tour. The ..proceeds,' '.apart' ' from" .the ;! usual expenses,- would'■ be", devoted, to -, charities or to., some 'worthy /object ■ such -. • as found. a : scholarship; for Maori boys at.'.-". the ■ universities. It ! was. suggested ..that,; twenty-eight:.match'es : .be played;' iriclud-,; ing internationals and tnat. the., team. . should : go Home by ,the. : :direct J- 'route,, With regard, to percentages-of, gates the , committee '.suggested-; a - similar- arrangement to that, made- during,': the -.."All Blacks'"' tour-' and hoped ;to get. gnar-,. antees,'especially at the big matches: :''.' The tJnion 'decided to postpone .consid-;-',' oration of- the proposal until.-.its;•"next; ■ meeting. ; . ;. -.•■ ';;- .'. ; :-'; : ,;;."'-.; ;,