FOURTH TEST SEATS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 173, 24 July 1930, Page 10

FOURTH TEST SEATS.

PRICES FOR ENCLOSURE, '<

A MATTER OF RULES.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day.

Arrangements for the fourth T«tt match, between New Zealand and British teams at Wellington on August S wpre further advanced at a meeting of the management committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union last evening.

Priccs for additional seating eeco m . modation at Athletic Park Were fixed at 7/6 and 5/6 for seats within the enclosure, both including tax.

The Wellington Savage Club's invitation to the manager of the New Zealand team and officials of ihe New Zealand Union to attend a korero at the Masonic Hall on the night of the Test was accepted. An invitation had also been accepted by Mr. Baxter, on behalf of the British team. Mr. A. C. Kitto brought up the question of different rulings being given to local matches and the games against the British team. He considered the rulings should be uniform.

Mr. Dean explained that it had been decided at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Union that all matches against the British team should be under the English Rugby Union's and the International Board's rules. It' was pointed out that some referees in the matches against the British team gave a free kick against a player who took a forward pass, whereas the rules of the International Board laid down that a scrum should be ordered for a forward pass.

It was decided to instruct all referees who control matches to be played by the British team that the International Board's rules must apply.

The Thames Valley Primary Schools' Union wrote thanking the New Zealand Union for having allocated to it the Vancouver Cup. Rules wei-e now beiee, drawn up, and challenges would be accepted from any primary schools Euebv union in the North Island.

A request from the Public Schools' Amateur Athletic Association of NewSouth Wales to send a high schools' team to tour the North Island of the Dominion during the spring vacation was referred to the Secondary SchoolsAssociation. •