FOOTBALL.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16958, 6 October 1920, Page 11

FOOTBALL.

THE AMENDED KTJLES.

IffPOItTED BY CANTERBURY XT MOST. f A ipteial general meeting of delegated to lie C*nt*tbury Rugby Union was held last Isijht.for tho purpose of discussing- the progrted sew rules of Rugby football for next K««a. The president of tlra Union, Mr j i\ Wilson, presided over a good attendl!f Wilson «nid that there had been agitata for amendment® to the rules for many ,ari. A recent conference of reptesentatrVtSS ll the New South Wabs, Queensland, and •),» Zealand Unions had lately decided n attain alterations to the rules which •jd been sent homo io the English. Union, ilich li«d turned down all the proposed iMiidmentß but four, which, Would make> no serial difference to the game. The con»ihk» had been held last year, but the only St from, the English Union bad hem by jfk, Which went to show that that Uitdott ra not a live body. A conference of Now leitad Kugby Union representatives last south had endorsed the proposed emendurato, -on the understanding that they bo brought into force next season. At the same lime it was Intended that international fixmw. should bo played under rules approved lj tho visiting teania. There wasjiO ifaw*lit i sjoesaiau from, the English Union. Gir.jmstancca had arisen in New Zealand "which nude alterations in tho rules neceteaary if lit, game were to be kept up With the limes. Mr Wilson read a letter from the chairman i Ike New ZeaJapd Rugby Union, Mr G. If, Slade, who said, "In view of the cftiblepim, and also the, etjpulntion from South Ifcica regarding 1 tho amended rules, I feel tilt ior tho present, tbo question of playinß laended rules next season should be field irar Olthough wo have not got jot all we desire from the English Fnion, I think it is congratulatory to 1 kncW (kt - they ;»ro prepared to grant the New Zetland Rugby Union representation on. the International Board of Control, as this is ri»t we havo been fighting for for years.'' Mi Cecil Wray, of tho High Commioikoers Office in .London, the Dominion'* representative oil tho English . Union, .CablM a fellows:-—"Amendments Carried. English llagbj" very pleased your expressions loyalty tad willing' to grant New Zealand rept&Bentalton on International Board. I counsel delay in breaking a.wny." Tm meeting decided io approve the various rcggested amendments to tho rules, descriptions ..of which have frequently been published. lit Wilson reiterated his hope that there Isold be no occoeaion from tho- English I'irion, but at tho eivmo time expressed a tudv that tho proposed new rules would be it once gone on with. He. had. no doubt, is taid,. that tho men governing l the game a England did not understand tho conditions isdet which tho game Was played in New Soland. Wo must let England know that * wore otrt for amateurism, and to play the aao to meet tho conditions coasting in this iimtry. Mr "Wilson dealt briefly on. tbo *uc«a of the League gamo as concerned both fltyera and spectators, and he eventually wived that for tho purposes of inter-club ltd toterprorincial football tho Canterbury Bagby Union should support tho playing of 4e amended rukn for the 1921 season, at ike same titto affirming its, loyalty- to tho I'ajhsh; Rugby Union, and its determination »t to alter-its rules in regard to profeet»nahsm. Tho motion was carried without dissent.