FOOTBALL

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1436, 22 April 1905, Page 4

FOOTBALL

o- ENGLISH TEAM TO ARRIVE IN 7 1907. ie I (Per* Press Association.) 1- I Wellington, last night. !p I Word has reached Wellington that it is rs I praotically certain a team of English foot--7 I bailers will visit New Zealand in 1907. I.Several noted players will bo able to moke I the trip, and it is expected that the team i- I will be stronger, both,in backs and in fori- I wards, than last year’s team. i I POVERTY BAY RUGBY UNION. e I • | j The fourteenth annual general meeting ] I of the Poverty Bay Rugby Union was I held in tho Masonic Hotel on Thursday I evening last. Mr W. Miller, Vice-President i I to the Now Zealand Rpgby Union, in the I | chair. ' i | I In the absence of >the secretary, Mr I I Cowan read the Committee’s report. The I I Union would start the season with a j I balance in band of £BO. I j The Chairman congratulated the Union I I upon its'sound financial position. They! I still hod a 16 years’, lease of the ground, I | they bad £BO in band, and their liabilities I J were nil. The trip to Tolago cost the I Union £2O, That was the first time they I bad paid the expenses of their team, and I they would have to face the matter in the. I future. He thanked the old members I who hud helped them in the past by payI ing their own expenses op tour. They I hoped this yepv to put up a shod, and I eeats for the ladies. , I The election of officers resulted I President, Mr E. Murphy ; vioe-presidents, I Mpssrs R. G. Hallamore (Knit,i-City), A. J I W. Rees (Huia), and A. P. Kennedy (West End); vice-president to tho New | Zealand Rugby Union, Mr W. Miller; f, delegate to tho New Zealand Rugby Union, Mr Sim ; secretary, Mr D. Cowan ; r treasurer, Mr W. Miller; auditors," Messrs B. D. B. Robinson and R. Cole. The (questions of a referees’ association, third grade matches, and aoeident iDsurance wore recommended to the Management Committee, which under the new rules is comprised of the delegates from each of the affiliated clubs. m The secretary was instructed to write to "5 Dr Scott thanking faipi for bis assistance ” during the past s.easpn,