RUGBY GOALPOSTS

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3849, 4 October 1932, Page 4

RUGBY GOALPOSTS

REMOVED BEFORE A GAMIF. SPICY INCIDENT IN .LEADER GAME (Per Press Associal ion) Wellington. October 3. When the teams in tire Rugby League Smith Family benefit, match reached North Park. Pet<«ie, on Saturday, if was found tlnat. goals which had been thete earlier in the day bad been removed. It- traoapii-ed. that their removal had been ordoied by the Wellington Rugby Union, and this action gave rise to not a little ill-feeling, it being described by Air Corcoran, chairman of tne Wellington Rugby Longue. a(a most unsportsmanlike. The game proceeded after a. league official bad obtained a set of posts front the league ground- at Holt, Park. It, is gathered on inquiry from Rugby Eniou officials that the postf removed were the property of the union, and, the unions lease of the ground having terminated, instructions were given to have the posts removed. They were taken down, hut, were re-erected on Saturday morning, and finally taken away about 1.30. No application for their vtqn had been received, nor had the match been advertised ns a benefit-.