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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 443, 14 June 1902, Page 4

Mr 6. Rowland Hill, the Secretary of the English Rugby Union, has long been regarded as the leading light of the winter game (says the Press). Mr Hill was born at Greenwich of Irish parents. He was educated at Christ’s College, and on completing his studies he at once developed an active interest in Rugby football, and he and his brother, Captain Hill, were the prominent figures in the creation and organisation of the now defunct Queen’s House Club, which was, without question, one of the most powerful in London, and which produced such sterling players as the brothers Hewitt, Walker, and Cameron, the Fry family (Tom, Fred, and Sydney), and Sydney Ellis. On the death of the late Mr Wallace, he succeeded to the secretaryship of the Rugby Union, and undeterred by the enormous arnouDt of labor which his duties have entailed, the incessant monotony of dull routine work, the anxieties of critical times, and very many bitter disappointments, he is still to be found at the post, and to-day works with an undiminished energy and an enthusiasm which time and long office have been unable to warp. WADE’S WORM FlGS—the wonderful Worm Worriers—are always effective, One shilling hoses everywhere,