AUCKLAND RUGBY UNION BUSINESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 138, 1 September 1927, Page 7

AUCKLAND RUGBY UNION BUSINESS

LAST NIGHT’S MEETING At last night’s meeting of the Management Committee of the Auckland Rugby Union, Mr. H. Frost, presiding, the permission was granted to tennis to travel, as follows: Auckland City Council Club, to Otorohanga, September 10; Marist Club, to Opotiki, September 10; University Club, to Waihi and Te Awamutu, on. Saturday next, and to Hamilton on September 10. A letter was reecived from Mr. E. McKenzie, manager of the Wairarapa team, advising that the team would arrive in Auckland this morning. As chairman of the All Black selection committee, the writer said he would be interested to see the Auckland team in action. The Wairarapa team will leave again on Monday morning for Hamilton.

The Auckland Football Association wrote asking for the use of No. 1 ground at Victoria Park for the schoolboys’ match, Australia v. New Zealand. It was stated in the letter that Blandford Park looked a hopeless proposition. It was resolved to grant permission conditionally upon the Association obtaining the use of No- 2 ground for the union. The Radio Broadcasting Company applied for permission to broadcast a description of the Auckland-Waira-rapa match on Saturday, and this was agreed to. The action of the emergency committee in arranging for a band to play at Eden Park on Saturday afternoon next was approved. J. F. Baldwin, a player, nineteen years of age, appeared in support of his application for reinstatement to Rugby. It was decided to support the application. It was resolved to reply to the South Auckland Sub-Union and to the North Auckland Union that arrangements had already been made in connection with the playing of curtain-raisers this season, and it was regretted that the programme could not now be altered.