OTHER SOCCER

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2132, 25 April 1914, Page 12

OTHER SOCCER

At a recent meeting of Ilia Manage- ] inent Committee of the W.F.A., a fetter 1 was road from the secretary «f the New Zealand Association oil matters rotating to an official of oiio of tlio clubs, After tlio reading ono member of the coroinittce, speaking in a rather sarcastic loii-e, «aids "Oh, wo should rise when wo focoivo a letter from tho tlsa 'Legislative Council.' " "Yes," said another member, "they think they fun tl» b!iow. Who are they, anyhow?" After further remarks of a simiiariiature, the. iirst speaker stated that, if the New Zealand Council did not do as the Wellington Football Associatkm suggested, then tho latter body wffilld simply go its own way. He added that the parent body could only suspend them, and that would hot hurt thorn at aii> 'lh.o second speaker was n-.oi'o cmphfltic-, Ho stated that the W.F.A. was not going to to dictated to bv the New Zealand unimHl or anybody else. He tttmt «n to pass other reiii-'uks which wtfro not ilal.torimg to tliosn who constitute the gflvermtig Imdv of Association football in Ntff Zetland. The three now members nf tlie committee sat silent «'hih> older members poured on, tlicy W-ro plainly not in accord with the RPiitimeiiU o« : pressed. Some of tlio old members of the committee also stowed that ttwy iliil not agree with the. tenor of what ■ had been said.