A REFEREE ASSAULTED.
QUESTION OF PENALTY. [BY TELEGRAM, —PHESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON*, Thursday. Suspension till the end of the 1929 playing season was considered by Mr. Mullaney, at a meeting of the Rugby Union Management Committee, to be too liglit a punishment in a case in which the committee was advised by the Wangamii Union that a player, a senior under the Rangitikei Sub-union, had been ordered oil the field by the referee for an insulting remark, following a warning, the player later taking revenge by striking the referee when in a hotel. Mr. Mullaney said it was not a case where a player had been ordered oft only once. It had happened three times. Rugby would not be losing anything by losing this player. He suggested suspension for life. The chairman considered that would be too drastic without evidence. It was decided to ask the Wanganui Union for full notes of the evidence at the inquiry.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19417, 27 August 1926, Page 15
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156A REFEREE ASSAULTED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19417, 27 August 1926, Page 15
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