FOOTBALL.
. » . AUCKLAND ABOLISHES DISTRICT SCHEME. [BT TELEGRAPH — PBKSS ASSOCIATION} AUCKLAND, Bth April. The crisis in local Rugby football culminated this evening, when a special meeting of delegates of clubs affiliated with the Auckland Rugby Union decided to abolish the district scheme. There was no discussion or argument about the matter. The president, Mr. A. E. Devore, read the petition from the clubs, and then Mr. M. J. Sheahan, chairman of the Management Committee, read a series of proposals having for their object the abolition of all bylaws relating to district boundaries and residential qualifications. These were put and car* ried on the voices. The union will thus return to the club system after a period of eighteen ycarß under the district scheme. The latlter was given a four months' trial in 1891, and was adopted wholly in 1892. Last season the first departure was made from the stringent rules, a junior club being allowed to lorm without residential qualification. That was tho thin edge of die wedge.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 83, 9 April 1910, Page 14
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