RUGBY VISITS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 63, 8 December 1926, Page 12

RUGBY VISITS

ARE THEY TOO FREQUENT? CONFERENCE WITH NEW . SOUTH WALES The New South Wales Rugby Union wrote to the management committee of the New Zealand Union last evening suggesting that the New Zealand Union should send a delegate to Sydney to confer with the New South Wales Union concerning a new agreement to replace the existing one, which will expire at the end of the year. “In view of the extended visit of our representative team to the Home countries next year,” the letter stated, “the question of our sending a team to New Zealajid, as provided for in the agreement between our unions, would appear to be a matter meriting immediate consideration. Then, there is some idea here that your representative team, provided •your proposed visit to South Africa in 1928 eventuates, might play here on its way over, and, again, there is the long-contemplated visit of a French team, about which matters we are awaiting some definite information. The union here feels that our next two seasons may be unattractive lacking a visit from some overseas team. The chairman (Air. S. S. Dean) remarked that New Zealand could not continue to go on sending a team to Sydney every year. “The idea of sending a New Zealand team to Sydney each year is ridiculous,” be asserted. It was decided to ask the New South Wales Union to fix a date for the conference, wjien the New Zealand Union would consider the question of sending a delegate to Sydney.