PUT OFF THE GROUND.
INCIDENT AT A FOOTBALL MATCH. (BX TELiGiui'n— rrcrss association.) ' Nelson, September 2L A case of interest to footballers was heard at Takaka by Mr. H. Eyre Kenny, S.M., a referee being charged with issault. Cora-, plainant was a spectator of the match, .1111] 111 his enthusiasm encroached upon, the fuild of play. Ho remarked upon, a ruling of the referee, who thereupon put him. off' the ground. Defendant said ho understood a ■ referee had sole charge of tho ground on the occasion of a match, ami that ho was acting within his rights. The magistrate said no had 110 cases before him to. show: what legal authority a referee possessed, but ho held that defendant acted, bona fide in tho belief that ho had authority to flject complainant from the- enclosure; The' charge was dismissed with costs : £3 ; 9s, * n&ainsb complainant.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 308, 22 September 1908, Page 2
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