FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4637, 1 February 1894, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

(By Tejegrapb.—press Assoojatioh)i

WEiiLiNofON, Thursday. Intimation haa been receivpd t'uat |bp Bubrcomiiittee pf the English fyigby Unjan has cajled upon Sbjigh, aa representing the Otago Union, to appear befuie it to give the reason why (lie Otago Union remained out* side the N.Z.Rugby Union. TheCao terhury Union's delegate is also asked to attend bujidid, not do so. f alliser it representing the N.Z.' Union was preeppt by jnvitation',' Sleigh stated a ppmber of objections, arid, charged tbeN.JJ, Union with professionalism. These charge having been answered by Palliser, the oommita resolved, that in its opinion the only reasonable objection Otago hud to joining the N.Z, Association was that the representation on the committee of the N.Z. Union was not a fair one and that if steps could be taken with a fiety to allow largo oentres'suoh aspckland, tyelfingtim, Ohrißtchuroh,' ' y aA D ( anedm equal representation, and those' of other Ufajons enjaljar representation on (be line of the English Union, the oonunittep would take seriowly into consideration the question of the N.Z, team visiting Englaod irrespective of Canterbury and Otago. The correspondence will be read before the annual meeting of the N.Z, Union in April next,