RUGBY ASSAULT

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 23, 27 July 1933, Page 12

RUGBY ASSAULT

PLAYER FINED £5

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

TE KUITI, This Day,

As a sequel to the Hang.itiki footlinll sensation on June 17, 'Bakou Nikora, of Hangatiki, was fined £5 and costs this morning by Justices of the Peace for assaulting Wolfe, a Te Kuiti player. The case against Brownie Nikora, brother of Bakou, for using obscene language in a public place, was adjourned.

A disgraceful scene occurred during a Rugby football match at Hangatiki on Juno 17, when To Kuiti were playing the local team. A Maori member of the Hangatiki team remonstrated with the referee- over a penalty kick, and the player was ordered off the field. He picked up the ball and took it away, calling on the rest of the team to follow. His two brothers followed, but the remainder of the team stopped to finish the game. Another ball was procured, but the disqualified player rushed on to the field and commandeored tho second ball. The three brothers then ordered tho referee off the field, which is their property. There was a wild scene, during which tho referee and another player were struck on the .head as thcx were leaving the field.