ALLEGED ROUGH RUGBY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 894, 13 August 1910, Page 4

ALLEGED ROUGH RUGBY.

PROCEEDINGS. IN CAMERA; The doings of-the Management Conh v mittee of the Wellington Rugby Unioi) last evening are shrouded, to a degree in mystery, but it is known that thet devoted some hours to an earnest in', vesWion of the much-disousstJt ; fighting incident" which occurred at the Park on Saturday afternoon last 111. the exercise of ite suzerain, power the union summoned before it the meraoers of the teams, concerned, the refereo of the match, the line umpires,, and a host of witnesses besides ' Whs assembled ■throng overflowed from the meeting-room and occupied a deal ot apace m the adjoining passage. Inside, in an atmosphere somewhat thick the secretary was kept busily employed in taking down a mass of evidence. • , As the evening wore on. the number m attendance) steadily diminished, a hey drifted away in little squads, but there was no relaxation of the stern secrecy in which the proceedings were .conducted. Each party as it left careMy secured the street door in its ■ wake, and there was no possible chance of an inquisitive outsider penetrating the stronghold. A sported oak and a length of empty staircase divided.the union from the outer world, and with its attendant witnesses it was secure m a grand isolation. ; It is highly interesting to know that the union, having thus guarded itself against all intrusion, while it wrestled manfully with a knotty problem, decided at last to do nothing; With a simple directness it resolved to adjourn , the whole matter until a date succeeding that of the Magistrate's Court Droceedings on September 7. •