RANFURLY CHALLENGE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 772, 19 September 1929, Page 14

RANFURLY CHALLENGE

WANGANUI’S PLEA FOR GAME P) css Association WELLINGTON, Wednesday. At a meeting of the Management Committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union this evening, a letter was received from the Wanganui Union asking for permission to fulfil its challenge for the Ranfurly Shield this season. The letter stated that Wanganui's challenge was of long standing, and the union s committee was of opinion that the fact that the shield had changed hands should not prevent existing challenges from being fulfilled. , , . . The letter was received ; the chanman remarking that the New Zealand Union should lay down a rule that no challenge should be issued until a union actually held the shield. The South Canterbury Union wrote agreeing to fall in with the suggestion that its challenge to S? u * hl * nd for the Ranfurly Shield should be deferred until next season, on the understanding that it should receive prior consideration next year. The chairman announced that no replacements would be allowed in either the North Island v. South Island or the New Zealand v. Maoris matches, as both games would be played under international board rules. Mr. K. Tahiwi, on behalf of the Maori Advisory Board, asked the union to define what constituted a Maori, in view of the selection of the Maor team to play the New Zealand team at Wellington on Wednesday week. It was decided that the definition of a Maori should be in accordance with the definition laid down by the Maori Land Act, 1909, which limits Maoris to not less than half castes. WHANGAREI REPS. WHANGAREI, Wednesday. The following team has been selected to represent Whangarei against Northern Wairoa, in the final Harding Shield game on Saturday: Fullback, Kerr; threequarters, Sligo, Nicholls and Beehre; five- eighths, McLennan. Ryan: half, McDonald: forwards, rover. McQueen, M. Morrissey, M. Sheriff, W. Rika, "Bunny” Finlayson. Morrison. T. O’Shea. Emergencies' Backs, Hemi, B. Morrissey, D. and N. Wilson; forwards, Dickson, Bain, Finlayson and Fletcher.