REFEREE'S POWERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 220, 14 September 1923, Page 5

REFEREE'S POWERS.

f I l# , ■ THE FIAKO DISPUTE. i 1 APPEAL TO RUGBY UNION. (By Telegraph.—Special to " Star.") WELLINGTON, this day. "Can a referee stop a game of Rugby and award the game to the opposing side because a player has been ordered ) off and refuses to leave the field?" This i was a question on which the New Zear land Rugby Union was asked to grive i a ruling at the request of the Piako i Union (Thames Valley). I | The position, as revealed by the secre- : tary's letter, was that, during the course |of a recent club fixture, a player had j been ordered off on a charge of I fighting and using bad language. IHe refused to budge, and the - i official finally stopped the game r i and declared the opposing team victors. " j Mr. E. McKenzie remarked that the r i game could not have proceeded until the " I player left the field, and the referee J I was certainly right in that respect. c I The chairman suggested that the mats ! ter was one for local jurisdiction, and 0 the letter was referred back to the t union concerned. 1 ___________ The rolling stock of the Auckland c tramways is expected to be added to i next week, when another new car should be finished and put on the road, (i ' t