THE LAWS OF RUGBY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 284, 27 August 1919, Page 6

THE LAWS OF RUGBY

i- ——♦——■. . ! ; PROPOSED AMENDMENTS d •■'■•• DISCUSSED. -■ . • ■• ■ |By Tclecra/pli—Press Association.' s Christchurch, August 20. n A meeting of delgates to the Canter- ? bury Rugby Union, to discuss the pro's posed amendment's of the . Auckland 'J Rugby Union to the constitution of the !' Ne'.v Zealand Union and the laws of '" the game, was held to-nght. It was decid--11 ed to give the delegates to the special 3 mooting of the New Zealand Union a ■" freo hand in the matter. It was pointed :' out that threo of the live new rules fay--11 cured by Auckland had been in force in 0 Canterbury for years. It was also agreed '• that the delegates support the Southland '• union's , proposal that in celebration of 0 peace the disqualification of League • players bo removed, exception, however, 1 being taken to the proposal to reporC " such removal to the English Union;-;; A 6 the event of it being decided upon, '%vr g j . ,v -'\ PLEA FOR ONE CODE, o i- Christchurch, August 26. t A plea for one Rugby code was made f by the Mayor (Dr. Thacker, M.P.) in i. welcoming 1 the Australian League team s at the City Council Chamber. Ho said he wanted to see an end to squabbling and diversity of rules,, so that there ■ could be one Rugby code, making possible a roimd of matches in America, 3 Britain, Australia, Africa, and NmvZea. ) land. "We, in the Rugby League code, i think we lead as far as rules go," the c Mayor added. "We must be leading, be- ). cause Auckland is adopting our same - and falling out with the old conservative • Rugby Union. (Hear, hear.) The Rugby j Untoii in Hie country is not conservative, ; but is tied to the conservative English l ; Rugby Union, for tho game there is' tbe > 1 game for the upper cln.sses, of the uni- . versities and so on. A man who is a j i worker, however, should not be prevent- j " ed, if he is a champion, from going on i •' tour simply because his earning eanacily j I jis nut off. When our men went "from I I this country they were amateur soldiers, j ! j but they had to be paid. There ,should ; ,' i be no difference if a man has to co on j tour to contest in eport. Nobody wqnid think of calling our soldiers professionals, and nobody should call our chainI pions professionals." '