APPOINTING REFEREES

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20510, 28 May 1938, Page 4

APPOINTING REFEREES

RUGBY UNION DISCUSSION DECISION IN INTER-UNION GAMES TEAM MANAGERS SELECTED The question of whether the right to appoint a referee for an interunion fixture should rest with the visiting team r.r with the referees' appointment board in the union where the match was being played, was discussed at a meeting of the management committee of the Waikato Rugby Union, in Hamilton last evening, when a letter was received from the New Zealand Union asking for an opinion on the matter. Mr A. St. C. Belcher explained 4hat it was the usual procedure for a visiting union to have the right to select the referee from a list submitted by the home union and he could not see that it would be wise to depart from this practice. On the motion of Mr C. H. Mclntyre it was decided to advise the New Zealand Union that the Waikato Union was in favour of referees in interunion matches being selected by the visiting union from a list submitted. Reinstatement Question The secretary of the New Zealand Rugby Union wrote stating that the reinstatement of a player would, in future, have to be approved by the union, in whose territory the player had played under another code, as well as the union forwarding the application for reinstatement. Advice was received that the Prince of Wales Cup match between representative Maori teams, to have been played at Wairoa on Thursday, had been postponed owing to the floods and wo-uld now take place at Opotiki on June 25. The possibility of a match being provided for a New South Wales club team at Hamilton was raised in a letter from the secretary of the Auckland Union. In view of the lack of details available about the team it was decided to advise the Auckland Union that the Waikato Union would hold the matter in abeyance. The match between Waikato and Thames Valley was set down for July 16, at Matamata. On the motion of Mr Belcher it was decided that the rules applying to the Findlay Cup competition should not apply this year and that entries for this competition close on June 24, entries for the Clarke Cup also to close on this date.

Mr W. Fraser was appointed manager of the Waikato team to play Auckland on June G, and Mr Belcher for the return match on June 18.