FOOTBALL.
DISTRICT SCHEME ABOLISHED.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The crisis in local Rugby football culminated this evening, when a special meeting of delegates of clubs affiliated with the Auckland Rugby Union met at the Amateur Sports Club's rooms and decided to abolish the district scheme.
There was no discussion or argument about the matter. The president, Mr. A. E. Devore. read the petition from the clubs, and then Mr. M. J. Shealian. chairman of the Management Committee, read a series of proposals having for their object the abolition of all bylaws relating to district boundaries and residential qualification. These were iput to the meeting and carried on the voices.
The union will thus return to the •club system after a period of eighteen years under the district scheme. The latter was given a four months' trial in 1891, and was adopted wholly in 1802. .Last season the first departure was made from the stringent rules, a junior club being allowed to form without ■a residential qualification. That was the thin end of the wedge. . The district scheme was highly successful during the first few seasons, but latterly there has been very little strenuous competition.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 359, 9 April 1910, Page 8
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196FOOTBALL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 359, 9 April 1910, Page 8
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