LAWS OF RUGBY
ALTERATIONS MADE REFEREES’ CONFERENCE (For Press Association.) BLENHEIM, this day. An important event in the Rugby year, the conference of the New Zealand Referees' Association, is sitting in Blenheim. The chief function is the revision of the laws of the game. Decisions will go forward to the Now Zealand union in the form of recommendations, A vote of condolence was passed with the relatives of the late Mr. Louis Grovers, former secretary of the association and a member of the executive. It was agreed that the ball was not dead unless it touched the ground over the. touch-line, or a player touched the line or ground beyond. A murk should not ho awarded unless a player was stationary at the moment of making the mark. A lecommendatiou was carried that a timekeeper with hells be dispensed with as outside the laws, the referee being the sole judge of time. The hall is out of a scrum when it clears Hie middle row, and if tho hack row man kicks tho hall hack into the scrum lie is guilty of an offence.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18064, 15 April 1933, Page 8
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