MANUKAU CHANGE OVER.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 162, 10 July 1924, Page 5

MANUKAU CHANGE OVER.

THE REASON ►WHY. EXCEPTION TAKEN TO LEAGUE'S RULING. Questioned this morning as to why the Manukau Club had abandoned the League, the chairman of the. Auckland Rugby League, Mr. W. J. Hammill, said that the trouble arose some weeks ago over a Manukau junior named King. The latter, who was registered with the Manukau Club, had, after playing for some Saturdays, suddenly joined, or played, for a Mangere team without having been granted a transfer. A protest from a team which had played Mangere duly came to tho League, and this was tho first intimation the League had that King had played for Mangere and again gone , back to Manukau. There was an application by a player named King for a transfer lodged with the League, but it had not been considered. The case was duly considered and King suspended for four playing Saturdays, the ruling being that he was a member of the Manukau Club and had no right to play for Mangere. It was also ordered that a game in which King had taken part should be replayed. To these decisions the Manukau Club took exception, and had not played any of the club's six teams in the competition since. Tlie club wa3 represented by teams in the following junior grades: Second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth A, and sixth B.