PREPARING FOR BRITISHERS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 51, 1 April 1930, Page 8

PREPARING FOR BRITISHERS

(Special to Telegraph.)

RUGBY TRLALS TO BE PLAYED, STRENUOUS SEASON IS ANTICI- L PATED. *

"WELLINGTON, This day. The British Rughy team -for New Zealand will leave England hy tlie Rangitata on April 11, and is due to arrive in Wellington about May 14, by which time club football in the Do- • nunion should be well under way, . ' Ns lt is proposed that the trial s to iind New Zealand' s Test team shall be commenced on the day the British team n due to reach \V ellington, but there is a possibility of the arrangement regarding trial matches. being reviewed, along witb otber matters connected with tlie British team's tourwhen the annual meeting of delegates - to the New Zealand Rugby* Union takes place on April 10. The plan of campaign which ihe management committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union has mapped out for the purpose of •finding New Zealand' s best talent mcludes the playmg o; the following trial matches : — May 14, North Island Possibles v. Probables, at Palmerston North; May 28, Scuth Island Possibles v. Probables, at Wellington; June 11, New Zealand Possibles v. Probables, at Wellington. The first test will he played on June 21 at Dunedin. With all the British team's matches. the usual big list of interprovincial fixtures (including Ranfurly Shield games), the trials, the _ inter-Island match (if it takes place this year), and the club and other games, the. coming season promises to he one of the heav- 4 iest on record. The calis upon the M players- will be many, and this is a |fl matter which will require . yery carefui M consideration. , It is very desirable that for the tests New Zealand should have its strongest side, and to this end arrangements should be made so that the players who are required will hot he affected in the matter of get- - ting leave to take part in the important engagements. With regard to the coming season the- following appears in the annnal report of the New Zealand Rugby Union: — "Your committee looks forward with eonfideneer to the 1930 season as promising to he one of the most memorable in the history of Rughy itt this country. That our visitors will receive the warmest welcome everywhere is assured; that they will he favoured with good liealthj pleasurable games, and a freedom of mjury is the fervent wish of evei-yhody in this country. No stone has been left unturned bv your committee to make for the comfort and enjoyment of the team during its travels, and the public of New Zealand may he relied upon to de the rest. Your comniittee trust, too, that the high standard of our game, and above all the good spirit in wlrtch it- is played right throughout the Dominion, will be maiutained and strengthened."