THE Australian Rugby Union (ARU) yesterday gave the Four Home Unions Tour committee seven days to find a suitable date for the proposed international against England during the Wallabies' tour.

A spokesman for the ARU, Greg Thomas, said a further compromise had been detailed in a fax message which offered two dates for an international at Twickenham, He said, however, that a decision has to be reached within a week before the Wallaby squad is to be announced.

"They've got one week to make" the decision and if we don't hear. anything by then we won't be playing England, that's final," Thomas said yesterday.

Efforts to play England in a fourth and final international have stalled because the Four Home Unions Tours Committee would not shift the end-of-tour Barbarians match set down for Twickenham on December 7th.

But Thomas said the Wallabies could play England as the first Test on November 2nd if a provincial match in Scotland was dropped.

Another option - if highly contentious - was to play England on November 16th, between the Scottish and Irish internationals. This would require Ulster's match against the tourists being axed.

There is the factor of England's internal problems coming the reckoning as well.

"It's the prestige of a Grand Slam tour, that's why we're so keen to play England. It's something the players can remember for always," Thomas said.

"We're still confident of organising suitable dates, but it's now up to the Home Unions to decide." Any provincial side forced to give up its early tour match because of the England date would be promised a match against the Wallabies on December 4th