REFEREES' STRIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 166, 14 July 1914, Page 7

REFEREES' STRIKE.

CALL IT A VACATION. {Hy Telegraph— Fress Association) WELLINGTON, Monday. The trouble between the Wellington Hlgby I'ninn and the Wellington Refrrees' Association over the control of fi « appointment of referees was ad danced another stage to-night. Some todays ago the association practically wEed its members out on strike unless tMir request that tlie union's representative upon the Referee Appointment ■Board he withdrawn was acceded to. JJ* union declined, and last Saturday we Rugby games wore controlled by '"olnnteer referees, including some memWra of the association. At a meeting « we association to-night to consider ™ position, a letter was received from we Rugby Union stating that it rePnttd very much the attitude the aaMoation 'had assumed, but affirmed that ': could not see its y\ny to depart from We stand it had adopted in declining j**sk its representative to withdraw ttm the Appointment Board. After considering the letter the asMtiation resolved that it should go into nation for the time being, and if oeca- "™ arose the members could be called J°ge(Jner again. Opinions were expressed ™« the Rugby Union cnuld not carry "tor a mollth without the ttsßißtancc 0! we a-cociation.