FOOTBALL.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 October 1920, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

QUESTION OF A PROTEST. It is not often that the settling of a fool - ball protest rests with an Education Board, but the Toranakt Board were failed on yesterday to decide such a point in connection with a recent schools play-off, Normanby v. Hawera. The headmaster of the Norrnanby School recently protested to the Management Committee of the Rugby Union against Hawera having played a certain boy who had left school a fortnight previously and was working in a lawyer's office. For' Unworn, it was held that the lad had only gone into the office on trial, and was to return to sdhool If unsuitable for the position. His name had therefore been retained on the roll. The Unioi referred the question to the Board for a ruling as to whether or not the boy was legally on the roll of the school. "School football has been very keen in South Taranalri," said the chairman of the Board, Mr. P. ,T. H. White in explaining the protest to the members. Asked for an opinion,. the senior Inspector, Mr. Valentine, said that a pupil could be retained 011 the roil till he had been absent 6r» half-days, when his name must then be be removed. In this case the player had evidently not been absent for (he period named, and this drew the remark from the chairman that he thought Ilawera held the trump card. Mr. 11. Trimble directed attention to the regulation in the Education Act which- stipulates that no child above school age shall be on file roil of any public school without special leave of the committee. .Subsequently the Board decided that further inquiries he made concerning the position of the scholar.