FOOTBALL.
BRINGING GAME UP-TO-DATE. CONSERVATIVE PARENT BODY. Chrlstchurch, Last Kight At a farewell gathering to-night on the eve of his departure for Tlmaru as Inspector of Schools, Mr. P. T. Eranr, president of the Canterbury Rugby Union, and president of the New Zealand Rugby Union, In acknowledging several handsome presents from footballers, criticised the English HUfby Union for its conaeriatism In refusing to allow amendments to thf ruin of the game. It was rather heartbreaking for him to rend In various English papers that the Canterbury Rugby Union and other parts of New Zealand were playing a professional game. Certainly tl'.o rnusiy old gentlemen ob the English Rugby Union should have learned some of the lesaons of the war, and cultivate rloser connection between Britain and the pomlnions in Rugby football. They had, howerer, turned down requests from Jhe rarlous Jlom'.nions for neces'sary alterations to the gatw. If New Zealand could secure the co-operation or other ltugliv Union countries. ho would faror railing the painter with the English Union, but he did not favor Isolation.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1919, Page 5
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175FOOTBALL. Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1919, Page 5
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