RUGBY RULES.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 197, 20 August 1919, Page 5

RUGBY RULES.

A CONCESSION BY AW3KI,AND. TILL THK SEASON ENDS. The quiwtioai of tlu- attitmlo of the Auckland Rugby Union in the matter of playing amended rules was discussed again laet night at the adjourned meeting of delegate* of the load uVubcr, which three weeks ago paKsed a resolution in favour of playing on with the amended rules in club 'matches, and of meantime appealing to the New Zealand Union executive for a special indulgent* in matter. The reply of bhe New Zealand ■Union, to the. effect th-at it could not countenance any modification of the ,_ , -i i .* i... *!,„ Rucuhv

ruled laid itown by the English Rugby Union «las put before the meeting by Mr. N". R. Jones, chairman of the Auckland. Kug.by Union. Diec-useion of the matter wad taken in committee, and after the question had been debated for just on two hours, the meeting carried a reeolui tioii that the old rules, as required by the New Zealand Union, be played in Auckland for the rei-.'t of tibe season. It wa.s stated to a "Star" reporter I subsequently that the feeling of the imr-eting was still strongly in favour of the new mica introduced by Auckland, ' and a imnilw-'r of delegates had be«n in ' favour of disputing by lega.l means the •competency of the New ZcalaJid Union ' to interfere in the matter of club matches, I but th« meeting had been influenced to • My decision by the approaching meeting > of Dominion delegates next month for I the special purpose of considering new ' rules and considering also tuie question > iff eccession from tlie Knglish Union. It ' was felt that if the Auckland Union now , broke with the New Zealand Union,

- lAucktand could not be i-epr«senrted at l that meictiiig of delegates, from, which f there was a .strong probability of {fetting - just wha.t the players and administrators a in Auckland wanted. This member s ! stated that as the club m&tclrea were now practically ov«r, ajid as it ihad , ~ never been Intended to play the new s I rules in representative matcies. Aucki land had everything to gain by tli» s eiiiall tULcrittee made in playing to the .- old rules till the end of the season. The n spirit of tli« meeting, he added, was ila hut rated by one speaker w-hio declared i- that if a satisfactory result were not % obtained at the meeting of delegates it wad a certainty that Auckland would j have, to make a clean bre/ak away from tiho othorri inimi'dhately. in order to save ,® tin- game locally. l- ~———_