FOOTBALL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2454, 6 May 1915, Page 7

FOOTBALL

REMOVAL OF SUSPENSIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association,) Auckland, May 5. Actingon the suggestion of Mr. J. H. Pagni, the Auckland Rugby Union, at this evening's meeting, decided to ask its delegates to place before the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union a recommendation that all suspensions be removed from Rugby Union players who have left or leave the Dominion with' the Expeditionary Force or Reinforcements..

Mr. W. Pryor, secretary of tie Employers' Federation, leaves for Dunedin to-rlay -to attend the sitting of the Arbitration Court there. Mr. J. W. Clinkard, assistant-sec-retary of the New Zealand Employers' Federation, was the recipient of several presentstions_ yesterday afternoon on the occasion of his departure for Trentham. Mr. T. S. Weston, president of the association,- occupied the chair. Mr. J. 13. Harcourt, on behalf of the committee of the Groat Britain, Ireland, and Belgian Fund, presented Mr. Clinkard with a pair of field classes; Mr. Weston presented a wristlet watch from the Advisory Board of the Employers' Federation; Mr. W. E. Fuller, a cheaue for the purchase of a revolver, on hehalf of the Wellington branch of the Shipowners' Association : and Mr. Pryor, a case of pipes from the staff.

One hour after the War Office cabled their acceptance of an offer from Toronto University of a hospital of 1040 beds, 26 doctors, and 100 nurses of Toronto volunteered. / Rome became the capital of Italy in 1870. Of the palaces, the largest is the \ atican, tho residence of tho Pope, and the Quirinal, now the residence of King Emmanuel. The point where the Turks attempted to cross the Suez Canal is where Professor Edouard Naville and those who agree with him locale the passage of the Red Sea by the Israelites. Hong-Kong is an island nf about 32 square miles, and was first occupied by Great Britain in 18*11. .