RUGBY RULES.
SOME SLIGHT MODIFICATIONS. [Bs TrjaEAPH- "bess Association.} WELLINGTON, July 10. The New Zealand Rugby Union last night considered the recommendations sent in for alterations of rules by the Referees Association of Canterbury, Marlborough, and Taranaki Unions and rejected nearly the whole of them. i Practically the only amendment favored was in the direction of removing obstructions that now disfigure the games. This was that a knock on shall not count if the player recovers possession before the ball touches the ground. The only alteration on the line out rule that the Union would consent to was that the ball must bo thrown in five yards. Tho Referees Association sent in a long list of suggestions but all those of any consequence were rejected and so far as the New Zealand Union is concerned there will evidently bo no improvement in the rules worth speaking of. All the old features of the game involving delay, waste of time, and obstruction still remain with the small exception mentioned above.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 July 1908, Page 3
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