FOOTBALL

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2560, 17 April 1930, Page 5

FOOTBALL

KICK-INTO-TOUCII RULE HEEL-M ARK BELT RATION THE REPLACEMENT RULE (Per Prcs s Association) Wellington. April 16. Changes in the Rugby rules wore referred ,fo in a discussion which took place at tint meeting of the Now Zealand Rugby Football Union. The topic was i raised when a resolution of t'l«e recent annual meeting was considered. This resolution was to the effect that the oldi kick-info-touch rule should be. reverted to throughout New Zealand during the coming seasonOne of the mentljers said that the reason of-pip resolution was to make tii4 players (it when it came to meetiuft fhe British team. After a. discussion, in which the importance of the heel-mark, regulation and fhe replacement rule as (hey affected New Zealand players war, mentioned, the meeting decided that fhe unions, as well as the Referees’ Association should lie circularised at once. Mr E. Wylie moved and Mr H. Leifh seconded and it was carried: That those bodies be in termed that the International Board rules will apply to the British games, and that old kick-in to-toueli rn'e is now m force in all matches for tin) rest ot the searson, in accordance with the resolution recently passed; (he lie-li-ma rk and not replacement rules to he explained in the same eirenlar letter.