RUGBY FOOTBALL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1940, Page 7

RUGBY FOOTBALL

WAIRARAPA UNION. MEETING OF COMMITTEE ("Times-Age" Special.) The fortnightly meeting of the Wairarapa Rugby Union Management Committee was held in the P. and A. rooms last evening. Mr K. Fairbrother presiding in the absence of the chairman (Mr H. A. McPhee), who is laid aside with influenza. There were also present Messrs Scott. E. B. Booth. C. G. Gray, F. Morton. S. Henson. V. Welch, and the secretary, Mr E. McKenzie. Accounts amounting to £29 Is 6d were passed for payment. The Carterton Football Club wrote asking that the junior game played against Featherston be replayed on the ground that Featherston played an Eastbourne senior player. After consideration it was resolved that Featherston Club be asked to forward its team card of this game, and to give an explanation regarding the playing of a senior grade player. The matter is to be brought up for further consideration at the next meeting of the committee. The Hawke's Bay Union wrote notifying that its senior team would leave Napier for Masterton on Friday; also extending thanks for the hospitality shown to the junior rep. team which visited Masterton on June 29. The question of arranging a junior rep. game against Wellington was brought up by Mr C. G. Gray. It was decided to obtain the feeling of the junior players regarding expenses, and discuss the matter at the next meeting of the committee.

The matter of petrol restrictions was again discussed and it was resolved that the secretary write to the New Zealand Union regarding the same. Arrangements for the reception oil the Hawke's Bay senior rep. team which will play Wairarapa at Masterton on Saturday were finalised. Mr Welch reported that owing tc several members of the Wairarapa College Pipe Band being engaged in hockey matches the band would not be able to play at the Memorial Park on Saturday. The next meeting will be held on Thursday, July 18. WAIRARAPA v HAWKE’S BAY. TOMORROW'S MATCH. The Wairarapa and Hawke's Bay senior teams will meet at Memorial Park tomorrow in a game which should provide plenty of thrills for the spectators. The visitors have a fast combination capable of giving the ball “plenty of air." while their forwards arc worthy representatives of a province which has produced so many outstanding players in recent years. Wairarapa has a team which should be capable ot extending the visitors to the utmost and the combination is probably the best that has represented Wairarapa for some seasons. The curtain raiser, commencing at 1.15 p.m., will be between the Old Boys’ seniors and the Puketoi sub-Union fifteen. This game should provide snappy football as both sides have good sets o! backs. The Old Boys seniors to play Puketoi Sub-Union will be as follows (players must be on the ground at 1 p.m.): Parsonson. Faulknor, Polson. Bodie Feltham, Munn, Cardno, Stowell. Collerton. Wingate, Faulknor, Dyer, Talbot, Beiliss, Rayner. Emergencies: Mitchell, Liidemann, Morris (2). Hibbs. Scott.