WESTLAND SUB-UNION

Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1925, Page 1

WESTLAND SUB-UNION

MEETING OK JUDICIAL CoMM I TT EE. The Judicial Committee met last evening. Present .Messrs A- L. Benjamin (chair), A. 11. Lawn, and S. The Secretary ol lla* Sub-Union wrote enclosing the following business for alien Linn : C, Kleming. ordered oil. in the Ara-hura-Kanieri match last Saturday, for striking an opponent. The report ol .Mr |). .Mi Ivor (referee) was read and be also supplemented the report verbally. Kleming appeared and acknowledged committing the olivine, under strong provocation. Alter consideration. and in view of the position as disclosed by (lie Referee, the Committee ordered that IHcming stand down for the first playing Saturday on which his team is engaged. request for reconsideration. The decision in the cases of Pfahlert and Blank was referred hack for further consideration. The Committee decided unanimously that having considered the request of the. 'Sub-Union to reconsider the decision in the ease ot Blank and I'fahiert. dealt with at last meeting, and the letter of the Referees Association to the Sub-Union sent on for its information, has no recommendation to make, as it considers that its decision was the only logical and fair one to come to. Id decide otherwise would undoubtedly inlliet a wrong on the two players concerned, whom we consider innocent victims ot a mistake as to personality, by the reteroe. ami tliaL we think they are more to he considered, in ibis instance, than anyone else. The Committee also take tin* opportunity of objecting to the parngiapli in the letter of the Referees .Association which states, inter alia. Iho Association maintains that the inability of the referee to note the exact postion of the players when the breach took place was not sufficient grounds fur dismissing the charge against the players, without even a caution.’’ The‘Committee take this exception for the reason that at the hearing of the charge this aspect was not considered. It was the fact that the referee wn- so positive when giving liis evidence. of the actual position of the men being fourth in the stationary line-out. and stating that lie was within a foot of tin* men when the offence occurred, while the men themselves and the line judge were positive that thex were playing first-men on the line-out that lei 1 to the actual decision. Ibe only inference to be drawn, therefore, was that a mistake must have been made by the referee, and so the reason for our decision, which we again (R-