DELEGATES MEET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 157, 6 July 1939, Page 24

DELEGATES MEET.

ALTERING CONSTITUTION.

SENIOR DIVISION COMMITTEE

To inquire mto the failure of the eenior .s.on to function sucxWully w «. the tf.P i a , S , pet ; al """'"ittee appointed at the Autkand Football A M ociation'n annual meeting some time ago. Laet niitht -« -peciaj meeting of delegates representing the senior Soccer ch.bs was held in thf I.AIC.A. to consider the report which l>; <1 been hrought forward. Mr. L. Munro was in the t-hair and there was much discussion on the various points. Mr Munro eaid it was necessarv to eonnder carefully before ,nakin S * an y to the constitution that might •tfect Soccer adversely. This report wae comprehensive and fully covered the functioning of a senior division committee. ilie failure of senior division committees in the past wae due to the fact that <lwties which should have been undertaken oy the committee had been undertaken by the board, eaid Mr. G. C. Ballantyne chairman of the special committee, in outlining the recommendations that his committee considered were necessary for the senior division committee. An opinion expressed.by Mr. W. A. Cole that the recommendations eeenaed to be in the direction of aboliehing the control board wae denied by Mr. Ballantyne. who said that the control board would still be needed, but it would be able to pive more attention to financial problems and matters in connection with Blandford ir£irK. Control Board Seats. It was agreed that the chairman and only one member of the committee should have seats on the control board. In connection with the selection of representative teams and the management of toure it wae decided that, with the exception of Auckland A teams, this should be the work of the senior division committee. A committee to bring forward the necessary alterations to the constitution and rules to a later meeting was eet up. It consisted of the secretary, Mr. W. Harrison, and Messrs. W. H. Martin and F. Barron. The playing of'club fixtures by teame with players in representative matches came up for discussion and it wae pointed out that if club competitions were to be interrupted the season would either extend into the summer or woujd have to be abruptly terminated without any decision being reached. The North Shore delegate, Mr. R. Spinley, moved that, where a club has more than two players in a representative team, it shall have the right of refusal to play ite competition match. This was supported by Mr. W. H. Martin, of the Mount Albert Grammar Old Boys' Club, the motion being lost. It was then agreed that the only time when club fixtures should be cancelled was when representative games under the control of the NewZealand Football Association were being played in Auckland.

ENGLISH TROPHY. CONFIRMATION OF DATE. Auckland will meet Wellington at Blandford Park on July 15 in the contest for the English Trophy. Confirmation of the date was received from the New Zealand Council at last night's meeting of the Control Board of the Auckland Football Association, and it was agreed that the match should commence at 2A.~> p.m. The question of a curtain-raiser was left in the hands of the fixtures committee. The New Zealand Council advised that the following officials had been appointed to control the game: Referee, Mr. C. G. Edwards; linesmen, Messrs. A. Firth and R. Webeter. It was agreed that all club games under the immediate jurisdiction of the board, those above third intermediate pi ad.'. should be cancelled on that day.

Mr. J. C. Silxbin reported that arrangement* had been made to play the Kotortia team for the H-illyburton JohnstomShield at Rotorua on July 1.5. Ho said there wete still vacancies to be filled, and asked the club del".Mtes to forward the names of players available. The North Shore Club advised that it wished t lie players Fold and Rutherford placed on the "open to transfer*' list.