EVEN-HANDED JUSTICE.
The Wanganui Management Committee dealfc out casttigation "with a firm hand in a case recently before it. When the Pirates played Kaierau the other day, the referee (Mr. Tilley) ordered a. Kaierau player and two Pirate players off the field for rough play; whereupon the acting-captain of the Pirates gathered up his followers and the whole team left 1/hc field, while spectators (two of them were detected) hooted the referee. The committee met and sent the Kaierau man up for the "rest of the season; suspended one of the Pirates for. twelve months; postponed the charge against the other indefinitely; suspended the Pirates' acting-captain for the rest of the season for calling his men off; suspended the whole of the Pirate team pending an apology "signed by all members"; informed the Pirates that iilieir accusation against the referee were "unfair and unfounded" ; and dropped down on the two abusive spectators, who were warned, during the Union's pleasure, off its grounds. The effect of knocking every one's head against every one else's was to sober up the Pirates, who apologised last Saturday, and went out in the afternoon and won their match. Discipline- is wholesome in Wanganui. Would the authorities be aa firm in" Wellington?
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Wanganui Chronicle, 26 July 1901, Page 2
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206EVEN-HANDED JUSTICE. Wanganui Chronicle, 26 July 1901, Page 2
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