RUGBY FOOTBALL
Invitation To Fiji For This Year NEW ZEALAND COUNCIL MEETS A decision io invite the Fiji Rugby Uniott to send a team to New Zealand this season was reached by the New Zealand Rugby Football Council, which met in Wellington yesterday. The proposed date of leaving Suva is August 29. and the date of return October 3. The itiner- : ary and other details, if the invitation is accepted, will be fixed at the meeting of the council on May 2. 'The chairman of tin* executive, Mr. S. S. Dean, presided over the following members-of the council: —Messrs. A. M. Ongle.v (Manawatu), president of the New Zealand Rugby Union, G. A. Maddison (Hawke’s Bay). A. A. Adams (West Coast). A. E. McPhail (Canterbury) and D. M. Spedding (Otago). Members of the executive present were Messrs. A. C. Kitto, A. McDonald. .1. Preiideville, W. J. Wallace, and Lieut.-Colouel J. G. Roache. Apologies were received from Dr. G. J. Adams (Wanganui) and Mr. A. St. Clair Belcher (Waikato). The annual North v. South Island match was fixed for September 23. in Wellington. On the following Wednesday ami Saturday trial matches will be held to assist the selector to choose the All Black team to tour South Africa next year. Nominations will be received by the council for North and South Island selectors ami for the New Zealand selector. Australian Tours. A number of provisions to be embodied in an agreement with the New South Wales Rugby Union concerning the inter- ! change of visits was discussed. It was I decided to recommend to the annual meet- I ing of the union a tour of New Zealand by Australia in 19-11 and the return tour , in cither 19-13 or 1944, and to recommend ! as a principle that the tours be limited I to 10 matches. A suggestion by the New > South "Wales union that the appointment ! of referees for all matches be left: to the i home controlling body, was approved. It was reported that the booklet on I school football was in print and would ! probably be issued next month. The council adjourned at 12.30 p.m. : for the showing of a short English Him ■ depicting scrummaging and illegal play. I-
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 154, 25 March 1939, Page 5
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368RUGBY FOOTBALL Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 154, 25 March 1939, Page 5
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