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CVetc Zealand Press Association) GISBORNE. The president of the Poverty Bay Rugby I nion (Mr B. Wolstenholme) told a union management committee meeting he had left the stand during a club game in Gisborne on Saturday to ask the referee if he wanted some assistance, as Mr Wolstenholme feared some player would be maimed.
The committee was to hold a special meeting last evening to discuss rough play in club matches under the union’s jurisdiction.
Mr Wolstenholme said he felt Saturday’s game between Y.M.P. and Marist had got out of hand. After leaving the stand he had tried to attract the referee’s attention, but had been unsuccessful. He denied that he had asked the referee to order a player off. A member of the committee, Mr M. H. Lynch, who also left the stand during the second half of the game said: “I saw a player almost unconscious on the ground, picked up by an opponent, literally thrown back into his own team."
Other members of the management committee described Saturday’s match as “vicious,” “nasty” and “sheer brutality.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31098, 29 June 1966, Page 19
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