FOOTBALL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 May 1919, Page 5

FOOTBALL.

ABOLITION OP WING FORWARD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The proposed amendments to the laws of the game were considered- A motion to abolish the wing forward was carried bv 23 votes to 21. A proposal that absolute free kicks and kicks at goal from penalties and tries should be absolutely free from charge was defeated on the casting vote of the chairman, it was unanimously agreed that the referee should ibe allowed to put the ball into the scrum. A motion providing for the modification of the la*" governing kicking into touch otherwise than from a kick-off or line-out was lost, and a proposal that the advantage rule should apply to line-out play was adoptedMr. Ohlson moved that delegates should be asked to bring before their unions the amendments which were agreed upon, with a view to having them adopted in their local fixtures. The chairman explained that before the amendments could be approved finally for all competitions they would have to receive the approval of the 'English Union. An amendment that before tho alterations agreed to were played they should receive the assent of tho English 'Rugby Union was. rejected by 24 votes to 10, and a fnrther amendment that the recommendations be not put into force until 1930 was also lost. Tho motion was carried on the voices.