New Zealand Rugby Union.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 85, 7 October 1895, Page 2

New Zealand Rugby Union.

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, October 6. The delegates to the Now Zealand Rugby Union met on Saturday night and decided that any Union in arrears on July Ist will not be allowed a vote or have a voice at the meetings. The rules were amended to allow alterations in the rules to be considered at any general meeting. It was resolved to recommend the English Union to amend the rules by making the penalty for a deliberate throw forward a free kick ; also that an unintentional knock on not to be illegal. Further, that they should amend the laws to do away with the present tedious touch play. Suggestions for legalising punted goals and tiie use of a round ball were negatived. It was decided that the next visit of the New Zealand team to Australia will be in 1897, and that the Queensland team be invited to visit the colony next year. A letter was read from the English Union re case law, stating the law case stating the onus laid with the team to see their opponents were not playing with more than fifteen men : that in the case of the ball striking a spectator unless special arrangements were made, it should not bo considered dead. The English Union admitted a referee had a right to place the ball in the scrum, but he should only exercise such right under exceptional circumstances.