RULES OF RUGBY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21468, 17 April 1933, Page 11

RULES OF RUGBY

REFEREES IN CONFERENCE [BT TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION] BLENHEIM, Saturday An important event in the Rugby year, the annual conference of the New Zealand Referees' Association, is being held at Blenheim. The chief function is the revision of the laws of the game. TDecisions of the conference will go forward to the New Zealand vnion in the form of recommendations. A vote of condolence was passed with the relatives of the late Mr. Louis Grevers, a former secretary of the association and a member of the executive. It was agreed that the ball should not become dead unless it touched the ground over the touch-line or a player touched the line or ground beyond. It was also agreed that a m;\rk should not be awarded unless a player was stationary at the moment of making the mark. Further recommendations were: (1) That timekeepers with bells should be dispensed with as outside the laws of the game, the referee being the solo judge of time. (2) That the ball is out of the scrum when it clears the middlo row, and if a back row man kicks it back into the scrum he is guilty of #n offence.