FOOTBALL PROTEST UPHELD
result of game reversed The playing by Punahau of two members of another team and three who had not been reinstated to junior football was the subject of a complaint lodged by Awahau to a meeting of the management committee of the Horowhenua Rugby Unicm on Tuesday night. In the game- in question Punahau juniors defeated Awahau juniors by6 — 3. Upholding the protest and awarding the, .gapre tp, Awahau, the committee mqtion'^by Mr. G. T,.Cld'j^p that'" Punahau .beadvised ,ihat a • recurrence of vs'udh'breaches of- the union rules would result in the suspension of the team. A letter was received from the Wellington Rugby Union, indicating its agreement to the playing of a gaipe between a Wellington B team and Horowhenua at Otaki on August 30. A request from the Horowhenua College sports master for the regrading from third to fourth grade of d. Lambert, J. Clark and J. Stevens was allowed. The fact that many teams were still not handing in their team slips on the correct form was brought to the notice of the committee, and three teams were fined 5s for the offence.
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 July 1947, Page 4
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