RUGBY REFEREES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19026, 28 May 1936, Page 7

RUGBY REFEREES

TOLAGA BAY MEETING INSTRUCTION FOR PLAYERS fßoratcl Correspondent.) The second of the fortnightly meetings of the Tolaga Bay branch of the Referees’. Association was held on Monday night. Present: Messrs. J. vVatsoii, chairman, N. Sadler, A. W". Larsen, C. Calvert, ,1. Lockwood, .J, Callaghan, W. McKenzie, and it. Tier, lion, secretary. Apologies for absence were received from Messrs. W. Prince and A. Bennett. A letter was received from the secretary of the East Coast Referees’ Association drawing attention to the publication of new rule books. It. was de eided to purchase 12 of these for the use of the referees and anyone interested.

A suggestion was made that the East Coast association should be approached with a view to ascertaining the possibility of obtaining suitable monograms for jerseys, thus making all East Coast referees uniform. The suggestion was favourably received, and it was decided to leave the matter in the hands of the secretary.

The Haniti delegate attended with a request from bis club that, if possible, the referees give all players definite instruction on the hip throw, as it was the opinion of some of their senior players that this throw as at present practised was more in the- nature of a trip. Further reference to this matter was made, later when the secretary was instructed to write to the Ifauiti and Country clulis asking them to name suitable dates for their teams to attend lectures on Hie rules. Mr. C. Calvert was appointed lecturer for the Ifauiti cluh and Mr. J. Lockwood for ttie Country club. It was decided to carry out an inspection of sprigs next .Saturday. All players should give their sprigs attention before going on the field. Regarding the appoint incut of line umpires, (he meeting decided to leave this in the hands of the selector of referees.