WAIPA RUGBY UNION

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1638, 7 May 1925, Page 5

WAIPA RUGBY UNION

MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE.

VARIOUS MATTERS DEALT WITH.

The Management Committee of the Waipa .Rugby Union met on Tuesday evening, Mr F. Quin presiding. Also present were Rev. White .and Messrs G. B. Melrose, G. Reynolds, W. McCarthy, G. H. Mairs, S. H. Dwen, G. S. Clarke, W. H. Bell and E. T. Crump (hon. secretary),.

Apology for absence was received from Mr Hogan, Ohaupo’s delegate. Mr A. A. Reese was appointed treasurer.

Acknowledgment of the appointment as officials of the Union were received from Messrs F. Lye (patron) and W. T. Brabyn (vice-president). An invitation to take part in a seven-a-side tournament at Arapuni on Saturday, 9th May, was received from the Arapuni Club secretary. -Application for affiliation as a senior dub was received from Te Kawa.— Accepted. Requests for a portion of the N.Z. Rugby Union grant of £5 weer received from Te Rore and Pokuru schoolmasters for the purchase of a football. — It was decided to contribute 10s to each school.

Accounts totalling £27 16s were passed for payment. The Pirongia Club secretary lodged a protest against Puahue thirds being declared victors over Pirongia last Saturday, contending that one of the Puahue players, Bravo, was over weight. Mr J. F. Roberts, on behalf of the High School team, attended by invitation to explain the protest in connection with the High School v. Methodist third grade match played last Saturday. The grounds of the protest were that three of the Methodists were over weight. Rev. White explained that the team had been weighed on the Saturday, just prior to the match, and three of them were slightly over lOst. Mr Mairs said he had previously asked for a ruling and the president had told him the limit was lOst 71b. On the day of the match he had also asked Mr Crump, Who replied that the weight so far as hd remembered was lOst 51b. On that assurance the boys were played. No delegate had a copy of the rules with him. Mr Quin said he had no recollection of stating what Mr Mairs had asserted.

Mr Crump acknowledged saying he believed the limit was 10.5. That was made in the presence of Rev. White, one of the sub-committee compiling the rules. Surely if anyone knew it was Rev. White.

Messrs Dwen and McCarthy said the third grade administration was bristling with difficulties. It would be well to go cautiously. Mr Melrose moved that the High School v. Methodist match be re-play-ed.

1 Mr Clarke seconded, saying that had there been no misunderstanding between officials he would have pressed for a forfeit to High School. After a good deal of discussion it was decided to replay the Methodist v. High School match. < Mr Melrose reported Merino, a Parawera junior, for a misdemeanour in the junior match Parawera v. Methodists last Saturday.—Action confirmed, and the player named is to be cautioned.

T. Ferguson applied for a transfer from the Rovers to Ohaupo clubs. Mr Mairs moved that all third grade players must be officially weighed before taking the field again.—Seconded by Mr McCarthy.—Agreed to, Mr Clarke to be the official weigher. Application was made by Rovers Club to regrade to . junior's G. Black, C. Old, T. Hall and R. Patterson. — Decided that each man must appear before the Union before their individual case is considered.

Mr Dwen asked that the Borough Council be approached to light up No. 1 ground for practice at night time.— Messrs Dwen and Melrose were deputed to wait on the Council and .state the case.

Permission was given Pirongia to play Otorohanga seniors at Te Awamutu on Saturday of next week, May 16th, provided grounds are available without interfering with champiofnship fixtures.

TEAMS FOR SATURDAY.

Te Awamutu seniors v. Rovers: Quin, Winter, Anschutz, Griggs, Mizen, Kay, White, Smith (2), Bain, Andersen, Mcßae, Kelly, Wallace and Holmes. Methodist Thirds v. Puahue, at Te Awamutu: Johnson, Short, Cor boy, Bowden, Connolly, Anderson, Martin, Brough, Vincent, Were, Culley, Sinnott, Mensforth, Mills, Parrish, Coyne, Hayward. Te Kawa seniors v. Rovers at Te Kawa: Moisley, Condell. Thompson, Wallis, Hupe, Turner, White, Kingi, Neal, R. Mexted, W. Mexted, Wright, Hose, Grant, Narby, Behuia, C. Cooper, N. Cooper, Cahill. Gasson. Rover seniors v. Te Awamutu: Hinton, Short, Noble, Langmuir, Rawiri, Verner, King, Nicholls, Cooper, Finch, Ferguson, Flay, Higgins, Crotty, Loomb, Adams, McDonald, Patterson (2), Bryham, Lendorf and Wood. Rover juniors v. Parawera, at Parawera: Hall, Main, Bridge. Cruickshank, Harris, Hodgson, .Liddell, Tickel penny, Bowden, Storey, Mold Wenham. Emery, Turnwald, Mannion Barton, Tui, Cuthbert, Clark, Woolly, McRae, Walker and Moore. Parawera Seniors: Mauriohoho, Onehi, Barton, Freeman, Boswell, Williams, Baillie, Campbell, Hockly (2), Hopa, Teke, Ashfield, Ryan, Baillie, Tunoho. Parawera Juniors: Tarau, Ratimd (2), Drover, A. Hockly, Hastie, Heta, Brown, Tangariro (2), Hunopo, Andrew, Pattie, F. Hockly, Hoti, Terelcori, Williams, Newcombe, Rangataki.

N.Z. UNION DECISIONS

(By Telegraph. Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Council of the New Zealand Rugby Union has formally decided to invite a French team next , year and offer New South Wales four or five matches with the Frenchmen. New Zealand has suggested 25 men and a manager, but the French, it appears, want 28 and two managers.. It was decided that all challenges

for the Moascar Cup must be in by June 30 and no school shall play more than four matches. Nominations are to be invited' from unions for members of the team to visit Sydney.

The alteration allowing a kicker to place the ball for penalty kicks was confirmed.

SENIOR FIXTURES RE-DRAWN.'

Consequent upon the admission of Te Kawa Club the Waipa Rugby Union arranged fbr the following re-draw of fixtures for the balance of the senior competition’s first round. Te Kawa taking a bye as for last Saturday:— Saturday, May 9th.

Te Kawa v. Parawera, at Te Kawa. Pirongia v. Pukeatua, at Te Awamutu. Rovers v. Te Awamutu, at Te Awamutu. Ohaupo a bye. Saturday, May 16th. Parawera v. Ohaupo, at Te Awamutu. Te Kawa v. Te Awamutu. at Te Kawa. Pukeatua v. Rovers, at Pukeatua. Pirongia a bye. Saturday, May 23rd. Pukeatua v. Te Kawa, at Te Awamutu. Ohaupo v. Te Awamutu, at Ohaupo. Pirongia v. Rovers, at Pirongia. Parawera a bye. Saturday, May 30th. Te Kawa v. Ohaupo, at Te Awamutu. Parawera v. Ohaupo, at Te Awamutu. Pirongia v. .Te Awamutu, at Pirongia. Pukeatua a bye. ’ Saturday, June 6th. Pukeatua v. Parawera, at Parawera. Pirongia v. Ohaupo, at Ohaupo. Te Kawa v. Rovers, at Te Kawa. Te Awamutu a bye. Saturday, June 13th. Pukeatua v. Ohaupo, at Te Awamutu. Te Awamutu v. Parawera, at Te Awamutu. Pirongia v. Te Kawa, at Pirongia. Rovers a bye.

JUNIOR.

Saturday, May 9th. Rovers v Parawera, at Parawera. Methodist a bye. Saturday, May 16th. Rovers v Methodist, at Te Awamutu. Parawera a bye.

THIRDS. Saturday, May 9th. Methodist v Puahue, at Te Awamutu. Pirongia v High School, at Pirongia. Saturday May 16th. Methodist v Pirongia, at Te Awamutu. “Rover Fan” writes: “In your paper of the sth inst I noticed that Offside would like to know what the Rover fans thought of their team after last year’s Ohaupo juniors had beaen them? I would like to point out that the Rovers played seven men who were juniors last year. The rest of the team were collected after the Te Awamutu club had had their choice. Our team does not play the game for the glory of winning but to keep the game of Rugby going?”