Poverty Bay Rugby Union: On 30 August 1890 a meeting of 40 delegates from these clubs, at the Masonic Hotel, agreed to adopt the Auckland Rugby Union rules and the Poverty Bay Rugby Union was formed, with Capt. W.H.Tucker as President. Affiliation with the NZRU, one year after the founding of that national body, followed in 1893. That was also the year that the Poverty Bay Representative team had its first win, 15-4 over Hawkes Bay, at Napier.