RUGBY "INCIDENTS"

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 103, 18 May 1937, Page 8

RUGBY "INCIDENTS"

Committee of Inquiry Hears Evidence Two of the three playors who were ordered off during the M.A.C.-Technical O.B. Eugby footbaE match at McLean Park, Napier, on Saturday afternoon appeared at the meeting of the Hastings sub-union last evening and were examined by the special committee of inquiry. The evidence was taken of J. Te Ngaio and W. Mataira, the two M.A.C. players who were ordered o£. The proceedings were "in committee." To-morrow evening the evidence of Brooks, the Technical player who also received marching orders from the referce, Mr. J. Laws, will be heard. The decision will be announced later. A now procedure has been adopted this year in inquiries sueli as the present one; it had been agreed that the Hawke's Bay unlon atid the Hastings sub-union should each appoint three memborS to form an inquiry sub-com-mittee to investigate complaints and roports of misdemeanours on the playingiields where players of the two tearas are coneerned. Last night Messrs. W. Norrie, N. A. McKenzie and B. Tweedie, representing the union, visited Hastings and colaborated with Messrs. C. H. Bunker, A. Jti. Mclvor and W. Lochhead, the subunion representatives, and all six will be again together to-morrow night for the examination of the third player.