ACTION BY REFEREES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22226, 28 September 1935, Page 12

ACTION BY REFEREES

KUGBY LEAGUE DISPUTE REFUSAL TO CONTROL GAMES TROUBLE OVER FREE PASSES A decision that members appointed to control Rugby League football matches in Auckland to-day would not perform their duties was reached at a meeting of tho Auckland Rugby League Referees' Association held last night. The games set down for decision today are the Test match. Australia versus New Zealand, at Carlaw Park, a senior reserve grade final between City and Mfirist, tho curtain-raiser to tho test game, and fourth grade, schoolboys' and sevon-a-side matches. The test match is under the control of the New Zealand League, and other games are under the Auckland League. The referees' decision was reached as a protest against the refusal of the New Zealand League to issue free, double passes to the stand to members of the Referees' Association for to-day's test match. "The matches definitely will be played," said Mr. Cyril A. Snedden, president of the New Zealand League, when the matter was referred to him last night. have had notification of the referees' action by telephone, and the matter will rest' at that until the morning. "The referees had been issued with double free passes to the ground, and they demanded double free passes for the stand. The League was riot prepared to grant this," ho concluded.