RUGBY POSTPONEMENTS
Endeavour to Evolye a Better Procedure UNION'S VIEW MISUNDERSTOOD An endeavour to arrange a different procedure to govern * Rugby 'postponements will be made^at a meeting;.which has been arranged between the Hawke's Bay Union and the Hastings Sub-Union. The object is to prevent a recurrence of the position which arose when, a f ew weeks ago, the ■ Hastings matches" were postponed. because of the unfit concfiHon of the grounds and the Napier matchbs were- played.' When the 'dispute about ihe fixtures was being discussed at the bnpp+mg the union in Napier last night, Mr J. W. Callaghan said there were certain uusappreheiisions ai'-.u:t his' sharej in t'idiscussions. ' 1 There ' seems, too, ' he said, "to be a certain misapprehension about our deeision. I was:railed at in Hastings last week for having tried ro have the Marist-M.A.C. game played iii Napier. There was no suggestion. of that, but from two different' sources it was thrown at me and I was called a traitor on the stand at Hastings because I wanted the two Marist-M.A.C. games in Napier. There was no suggestion that it should be played other than at Hastings. " "It was an irresponsible person who made that suggestion,"' commente.d' Mr W. Lockhead. . • . , . The discuseion lapsed. ■
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 176, 12 August 1937, Page 6
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