HOROWHENUA RUGBY UNION.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 June 1910, Page 3

HOROWHENUA RUGBY UNION.

I MH THORXE IUCI'UBS TO i CIMTiICIHM. QIMiSTIOX OF A IT,AVER'S SUSI'EXSIOX. A mooting of the Management Committee of the Horowhenua Rugby I'niou was .liold la.Mt evening at tiiio offices of Messrs Kmart and Thome, Oxford street. Levin. Owiinu; to the very l>au state of the weather the only nunnbors present were. ..Messrs Proctor (who presided), Pileher, Ruilii Wethopei liana, Horo Karanti and A. Tliorne (secretary). A COR RESPONDENT'S CRI'ITOISM. The secretary drew attention to a letter which had .appeared in the llorowht'iiiui Chronicle the previous d.ay from a correspondent, who 00111|:ila.ined that a meeting had nolt been held fr> consider the case of a Shannon player who had been ordered ofifth o field in Mie .match Shannon v. Hui-Mai. He (Mr Tliorne) had officially seen tlio referee of t.kat matcii, and ho told him thait the player in question, had boasted in the train of w.bat he would at the match. He (the referee) had wa.tehed his play, And ho noticed that 011 several occasions lie infringed the rules. In the end he had to order him off the field. As a meeting of the committee had been held last week and the week before, and as the player had been put off the field, and .being disqualified, could not play for a week or more, lie diil iK.it. think there was .any necessity to hold a further meeting as there would be a meeting the following week. The chairman questioned whether when a player had been ordered off the field he was disqualified. The secretary replied that such action uuquestion.'iibly disqualified him until ho had been re-insta.ted. The chairman thought a meeting might. have been called before. The secretary dissented, .and ho appeared to have Mia support of the fibers then present. "With reference to the case of the S'!i"ii 11 f>n player it. w.as stated thai he. was distinctly seen to trip. •Vs the secretary had mislaid the report Ironi the referee on the matter. it was decided, in its aibsence, to hold the question over until the next, nuvitinn;. COM PL AI N'T EROM LKYFX-WAX-DERER CLUB. A letter was received from the .'j.cretary of the Levin-Wanderei team to the effect that he had been instruotd to appeal .against the reversal of decision made by the referee in the Kia Toa v. Lav in-Wan-derer senior mateili at Oxaki on .rune 18th. The particular decision was when Levin, during tlito first spell, was pressing in the Kia. Ton t-he ball was .thrown in from the line out, and Lower took' it and raced over. The referee, Air Freeman, gave it a try. but immediately the touch judge put up di.is (lag, the reiere.' reverse-1 Ins decision, and went back to the touch judge. The referee now said that he. did ir.it give a try, and the meeting decried that the secretary be instructs 1_ to write to t>!iy New Zealand Referees' Association, through the local licferees' Asaciation. asking 1 r a ruliii-r as to what const.itutes a decision when it was thr,';ighli that blowing .a whistle and making a mark constituted a decision to a try. al legFt) short time. I iie appeal ot C.'. Ha i tholoniew, u it!i rcilereiice to there being a. ■•'.'lerkige. of live niiniites in the s.enn.l spell el the match LevinWandoivr H v. Tainui, was held" over, as Bar! h;:lomew had left the meeting beiore the arrival of the referee, who came late.