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The Maranui men brought back a complete set of rules, which seems to have taken care of every contingency. It is an odd provision, adopted straight from the New South Wales rule book, that games must be played irrespective of the stated, tide and weatfieii and that all team members must hold the surf medallion of the New Zealand Surf Association. (This provision is to guard against “ring-ins” from the local football clubs.)
Here are some points In rhe rules (which it may be seen are mostly Union, with a touch of Australian here and there): Each team comprises five backs and five forwards.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29008, 24 September 1959, Page 17
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