FOOTBALL. CANTERBURY REFEREES ASSOCIATION. OTAGO RUGBY UNION.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12498, 8 May 1906, Page 5

FOOTBALL.

CANTERBURY REFEREES ASSOCIATION.

OTAGO RUGBY UNION.

The monthly meeting of the Canterbury Referees' Association was bold in tho Zetland Hotel kv-t evening. Mr F. T. Ivans was in the chair, and there was a large attendance of members. One j-cw tm mber was elected. The. New Zealand Rugby L'uion wrote giving a decision on tlit' question of replacement of injured players to tho I effect that an injured player could be I replaced with tho consent of the oapi tains-. ! Mr F. T. Evans, who represented ! ihe An-ociation at tho annual nueti inj; of the New "Zealand Referees' Asso--1 ciatiou and conference of re fere- s, ; p-avo a iostimo of the business done at , tho conference, and < : ecis.<jiifi on the ! rules arrived at, together with a tun I account of the business wair-acted at '■the general m-eeling. A vote of than: s j was po.s-.ed to Mr I'vann for -»s icix>rt. I The New Z.-nland Rcferrcs" Assccia- ; ti-cn wrote stating that it proposed to ; issue a handbook containing the rules '■■ of the .Wociaiion and t.he rulings, to I deter with the latent- laws of the uarne jas approvd by :h" Knglish Ini'-ni,;-----i tional Hoard, nnd a.sking that the A*- ! social ion eon tribute to its cost. It wa.-dec-id. d that as the book would net be pubbshrd far v -o:r.e time. lh.> .-Woei.:tioi did not s c its w-iy to purchase :mv cepies. as th•• local Union's annual had the comph't." Yul. s as recently ivvjstd by the Fnglisb Rugby Union.

(PBLSS ASSOCIATION' TELEGRAM.) DUNEDIN, May 7. At a meeting of the Otago Rugby Union Cvmrnitte-j to-nierht. in view o! a letter from the Zetland Rneby Uniou'enclo ing a communication from : tha English U-tio-.i, .it wa.s decided r-o !?-ive the matter cf replacing injured players to th ■ discretion cf c.iptii s cf teams. It vu> its') I fed to approach i\.? City Council in regard to the purc-hes---Icf Forbnry Park as a recreation mr.nnd. and to urge the Harbour Hoard to r> t-iaim Like Logan. Mr li. .Harris vrs ■ re-; lec-U d sole selector of th- ivpre-o::- ---| tative teams.