RUGBY AFFAIRS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 101, 31 May 1930, Page 10

RUGBY AFFAIRS

MANAGEMENT OOMMITTEE MEETING. MATTERS OF INTEREST. Tlie weekly meeting of the management cominittee of the Hawke's Bay Rugby Union was held last niglit, Mr J. W. Norrie presiding over Messrs E. A. Young, A. D. Lynch, R. M. Hewift, H. V. Pliillips, A. Kirkpatrxck, H. Brown, A. W. H. King, B. Tweedie, D. Corbett, N. A. McKenzie and J. W. Callaghan. The Taihape Sub-Union approached the cominittee regarding the possibility of obtaining a visit from a B tcam some time tliis year, and offered the Hawke's Bay Union 33 1-3 per cent. of tlie gate reeeipts. . . The matter was deterred nntil tlie end of July. The Wairoa Sub-Union asked^ whetlier a return visit from ' a. NapierHastings team would be possible on l Sat'urdav, as that was a holiday and th? Wairoa Rugby finances were in need of aid. It ivas deeided to offer J'une1 28 as the only date available. On this day the Hawke's Bay representatives will be in tlie Wairarapa. The Napier-Hastings team will include plavers from further afield. . The Hawke's Bay Referees' Assoc-ia-tion offered assistance in management of the crowd at the British match, their offer being accepted witli thanks. Tlie cliairman's action in arranging fjr a seeond curtain-raiser on June 3. between. Wairoa H.S.O.B. juhiors and Napier H.S.O.B. junior3 was approved Mr J. W. Callaghan suggested that Ihe referees might more fully observe tlie rule regarding' the rushing of a piayer aftev he liad parted with the hall, stating that he liad heard that one club had lost three nieniliers through injury tliis seas-o# because of this. It was "pointed fmt that the refeiees followed the flight of tlie ball and it was not- always, tlierefore, that thev were in a position to see these aetions. After further discussion Mr Callaghan' s motion that tlie matter be hrought to the notice of the referees was carried.