Assertion: rugby's union | /r/CapableOf | appear throughout the country
Facets:
value: by a national union
type: OTHER
value: by the mid-1880s
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: However, rugby spread slowly owing to problems of distance and sparse population, and while regional unions appeared throughout the country by the mid-1880s, a national union, the New Zealand Rugby Football Union (NZRFU), was not founded until 1892.