SALUTARY PUNISHMENT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9305, 4 August 1908, Page 3

SALUTARY PUNISHMENT.

i [Per Pbess Association.] GISBORNE, August 4. The Rugby Union last night inquired c into matters in connection with a > junior football match on Saturday. One o of the line umpires was suspended from o playing for o month ; a player who dis--0 sented from the referee's decision was t suspended for a year; and another "" player (captain of one of the teams), * for disputing the referee, leaving the 6 field and unsuccessfully calling his men r to do so, was disqualified for life and r warned off all grounds- under the juriKr diction of the Union while football is in , progress. s MR HARNETT ON PROHIBITION. 9 [From Ora Co-respondent.] * DUNEDIN, August 4. Two of the local Good Templars' 7 Lodges wrote' to the Otago Rugby 1 Union, directing attention, to the stately ments of Mr G. H. Harnett, manager 5 of the British football team, concerning the amount of drinking seen at Invcr- '- cargill. During the discussion, it was j stated that there was indisputable cvi- - dence as to drinking in Invercatgill on 3 tho day of the British match, and pos- " sibly Mr Harnett was misled by the occ urrence and had formed erroneous j opinions about the operation of nor license in Invercargi.il. The misfortune I was that Mr Harnett' s remarks were . reserved till tho eve of his departure . from New Zealand. A resolution was , passed that the Lodges should be mll formed that the Rugby Union could not , see its way to take any action, the com- > mittec considering the question raised » was outside its jurisdiction.