N.Z. RUGBY UNION

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10636, 15 May 1912, Page 5

N.Z. RUGBY UNION

h> MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE.

(By Telegraph—Fr ess Association.)

Last Night

The management committee "of the New Zealand Rugby Union- rafifc tonight. An appeal tor a ecntributioii 'towards the ihtnd' for the purchase. ,o| pictures fcr thie 'National' Art Gadlery iwas referred to .the ■ a-imauall meeting.. The Wellington! Rugby Union wrote,. asking that as the amount of t!he loan of £4OOO had, been half paid off, flic* €bn;>mii:ttee consider the question ■■'* of k-educ'ing the rate''of interest, from 3 per cent, to"2£ per cent. The amount wntsitanding is £1950. The malbter 'was referred to the incrmiing commitftee. The disq-nalincation 1 of twelve •moutlis imposed on T. Rn.pson by tho Wellington! Rngby Union wa« made 'general An/application by E. R. Watki'iis for rc'instutement was declined. ' Tin?', Pbverty Bay Assceiatf-m wrote urging tlfe reinstatement of l>'ia|>vrS in itiha'b district, as a check to (tflio growth of the .Northern League game. "Tt was well known," said the fetter,"thut fiM.ba<Si' in Hawke's Bay 3iast season 1 , was a iiastp owing to tho. strides, made by the League game-. It iwnte reasonable 1 to aK'suuiio that a number of smaller Unions had already been approached with perhaps a prospect of ■;]'.: i eairly irem 1 *. 1 tentative matcSi, to 'withdraw from Rugby." The letter iwas referred -#) the/ annual meeting.