FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8125, 25 April 1906, Page 6

FOOTBALL.

NEW ZEALAND RUGBY UNION. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 24. The following are tho profits made by tho "All-»laoks" since their seleo'-ion in the early part of last year:—Six matohes in New Zealand, £501; Sydney, £553; United Kingdom, France and America, £8,908. Tho total receipts outside of New Zealand and Australia were £14,971, and the expenditure was £6,063. The match Northl Island v. South Island, prior to leaving for England, resulted in a profit of £6l. The New Zealand Union has now a sum of £12,000 on fixed deposit, and the value of its assets exceed the liabilities by £12,026. As evidence of the growth of the Union it ia mentioned in the report that during the past two years the number of oommittee 'meetings for the year has increased from six in 1900 to twenty-nine in 1905, the latter constituting a record. The oommittee regret that the number of disqualifications shows no sign of diminishing. Mr G. Dixon, manager of the New Zealand team, in his report, recommends that in any future tours not more than 25 matches will be'played, and that the number of men be restricted to notl| more than 27; that two internationals should be played in the early part of the tour; and that the men should have at least a week's spell before eaoh international.