RUGBY PROTEST UNSETTLED

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22304, 19 January 1938, Page 3

RUGBY PROTEST UNSETTLED

Result of Third Grade Competition SPECIAL COMMITTEE SET UP BY N.Z. UNION Although it is only about two months to the opening of the new football season, there is still a possibility that the decision of the Ashburton Rugby Union awarding the third grade competition to the Old Boys team may yet be upset. A special committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union has been constituted to settle a protest raised by the Methven Club, and should the protest be upheld by the committee, the competition will be won by the Metnven third grade team by half a point from Old Boys. The Methven Club’s protest was against the acceptance by the Ashburton Union of a last-minute withdrawal of the Old Boys' junior team from the competition. The club maintained that the junior team defaulted and should have been filled from Old Boys’ third grade team which, on the day in question, won the third grade competition with a lead of 1J total points from Methven’s third grade team. When Methven’s protest was first considered by the New Zealand Union a reply was received by the Ashburton Union supporting the club’s pro--test. The Ashburton Union again wrote to the parent body drawing attention to one of its rules which, u is considered, upholds' the original decision, and this representation is being considered by the special committee. SCOUT CAMP AT ASHBURTON FOURTEEN BOYS TO ATTEND Fourteen members of the Ashburton Troop of Boy Scouts will begin a week’s camp to-day in the Ashburton river-bed, just off Beach road. The boys will be given an opportunity of carrying out the usual scout work, including camp fires, tracking, and games. Assistant-Scouter F. Shearer will be in charge of the camp, which will also .be attended by Scouter Shearer, scoutmaster of the Geraldine troop, and Cubmasler C. Chambers, of Christchurch, and formerly of Ashburton. PERSONAL NOTES ASHBURTON The Mayor (Mr W. H. Woods), who is a member of the executive, was appointed by the Ashburton Borough Council at its meeting dtr Monday night to represent it at the annual conference of the Municipal Association of New Zealand, to be held at New Plymouth at the beginning of March. V. P. Boot and R. Withell left Ashburton yesterday on their way to Sydney, where they will represent New Zealand at the Empire Games. Boot is competing in middle-distance running, and Withell in the heavy-weight boxing. They will sail with the team for Sydney to-morrow. Misses L. Moylan, M. Moylan, and K. Brosnahan left last evening for Wellington, where they will join the staff of Lewisham Hospital. Miss Joyce Chambers is visiting her parents at Ashburton, after spending a camping holiday at Nelson and Picton. POLO REVIVED AT ASHBURTON NEWLY FORMED CLUB HOLDS PRACTICE MATCH Polo was revived in the Ashburton County on Saturday afternoon, when the recently-formed Ashburton Polo Club held its first practice match on the property of Mr T. S. Tarbotton, at Fraser’s road, Tinwald. A good afternoon’s sport was enjoyed, the eight players taking part being Messrs Mulligan (4), A. N. Grigg, W. R. Lemon, J. Lewis, and R. D. Hefford. ’ Polo was formerly played at Mayfield, but the club there ceased activity several years ago. *