SPORTS PROTECTION LEAGUE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1234, 16 September 1911, Page 13

SPORTS PROTECTION LEAGUE.

ORGANISING SSCEETAET ■ APPOINTED. During the month of August applications were invited, through the columns of tho press throughout the Dominion, for the position of general secretary to tho Now Zealand Sports Protection League, at a salary of J-300 per (lnnum, plus expenses. ■ JSccdless to say the position was assailed by a large number of applicants, and since tho lirst of the current month tho Board of Control have boon busy reducing the number. Eventually five applicants were requested to appear before tho bonrd, aud the meeting took place yesterday. The five applicants who were m tho first flight camo from the ends of tho Dominion—viz., two fram Auckland, and one each from Wanganui, Wellington, and Invercargill, and M.r. A. Paapo, of Invcrcargill, was appoint-sd to the position. The successful applicant has had e'stensivo organising experience, and his first work was to organise the sawmill workers of Southland. After fivo years Mr. Paape severed his connection with that body to'take up tho duties of secretary to a number of bodies in InvercargjlJ. Of tho fourteen positions, the principal arc: Tho Southland Caledonian ,Snciety, Southland Acclimatisation Society, Invercargill Cycling Club, Hospital Saturday Association, and Southland Union. At tho last general election Mr. Paape was a candidate for the Tnvcrcargilj constituency, nnd with only fourteen days' campaigning secured an actual majority in the main town booth, but lost ground in the outlying parts of the town, and wm eventually defeated by some eight hundred votes. ' I

Jfr. Paapo leaves for tho south this evening, and will return to Wellington to take up his permanent abodo on October 1.