RUGBY TEAM FOR ENGLAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 27 April 1907, Page 2

RUGBY TEAM FOR ENGLAND.

REPORTED PRIVATE XECOTIATIONS. TO I'I.AV NORTHERN' UXIOX ULURS. Per Press Asociation. Wauganui, April 'IU. Advices received here from Kngl.uid by last mail stale Hint the Xor'lliern Union Pmgby Clubs have received a ' ininiiieiitioii suggesting that Xew Zealand should send a team Home next year to play clubs muter Northern I'mon rules. Leading clubs have been asked what support can be promised. The Loudon Telegraph, commenting, states that replies have not yet been sent, lint the leading clubs favor the project and it is regarded an certain that a New Zealand team will visit England next season.

XEW ZEALAND UNION'S ATTITUDE. EITHER PRIVATE VENTURE Oft SPECULATION'. Per Press Association. Wellington, April ill With reference to the telegrams from Wanganui that a team of Xew Zealand rugby footballers are likely to visit Eng land next season to compete against Xorlhcrn Union rugby clubs there, Mr. E. Wylie. secretary of the Xew Zealand llugby Union states: "I have had no ollicial communication from the Northern Union on the .subject of visiting' them. As we subscribe to the English Rugby Union (strictly amateur), if is impossible for any Xew Zealand players to play against the Northern Union men without coming under the ban of our professional laws, meaning life disqualification. Any tour arranged must be purely on professional lines, and would not, 1! feel sine, have the sanction of the X T ew Zealand Union." He adds that no doubt if a team goes home, it will be a private venture or a speculation.