SOCCER VISIT

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 300, 15 September 1936, Page 16

SOCCER VISIT

Australia Anxious To Co-operate NEGOTIATIONS PROGRESS The extent to which negotiations have progressed between the Football Association (Loudon) and the New Zealand Football Association for an English tour to New’ Zealand in 1937, was disclosed at a meeting of the council of the latter body last evening. Provisional arrangements have already been made for the team to leave on the Chitral on April 20, and Australia is anxious to take four weeks of a nine weeks’ tour, the estimated cost to the Australian association being £1520. „ In reply to a cable from the New Zealand council asking if the suggested Australian matches met with their approval, the Football Association cabled agreeing to the Australian matches subject to there being no serious extension in time of the tour. In addition to the actua. fares and hotel expenses in Australia and New Zealand, the message stated, approximately £750 would have to be added for assembling players and tor equipment, insurance and incidental exA cable was read from the Australian Football Association agreeing to cooperate with the English tour on the assumption Australia would secure four Saturday matches, and that the amount involved would be pro rata of overhead expenses. , • The chairman (Mr. J. A. Milburn) said the extra amount mentioned in the English cable had not been allowed for, and it was a matter for the urgent consideration of the finance committee. Mr. F. Campbell suggested the h ootball Association should be asked to assemble and outfit the team, the amount expended to be made ja first charge on the profits of were received, and the whole matter was referred to the finance committee. . Successful Tourney.

A report was received regarding the recent secondary schools’ tournament at Napier, which was stated to have been a great success so far as the standard of play was concerned. The tournament was plainly becoming unweildly, lo matches in three days being far too much. „ . Members spoke of the excellent organisation of the tournament, and it was decided to write congratulating the Hawke’s Bay association on its running of the fixture. - A letter was received from, the Huiie. association asking the council’s opinion of runnings a school competition during the summer months. It was decided to leave the matter _to the discretion of the Buller association, but members were strongly ot opinion that if there was likely to be any interference with summer sport, the project would have to be abandoned. A resolution from the management committee of the Canterbury Football Association was received as follows: ‘ That it be a recommendation to the N.Z.F.A. to appoint neutral referees for all Chatham Cup or trophy matches.” “All referees are neutral,” remarked Mr. W. G. Bryce. It wag decided to refer the matter to the New Zealand Referees’ Association. Canterbury was granted permission to play a return match against a Westland senior representative team at Greymouth on September 19, and against a junior representative team for the Dewar Cup. CAMPBELL ROSE BOWL Players Selected to Train Mr. G. F. Aers, sole selector for the Wellington Football Association’s first A division teams, has ehosen 13 players to go into special training for the return match for the Frank Campbell Rose Bowl, at Blandford Park on Saturday week. They are as follows Turkington, Hatchard, R. Quirke (Marist), Haines, Leslie (Petone), McKenzie, Gendall (Seatoun), O’Leary, Nicol (Dia mpnds), Boyes (Institute), Miles (Hospital). Reid (Waterside), Healey (Lowei Hutt). These players are requested to be at the Basin Reserve at 8 o’clock next Wednesday night. Gendall, O’Leary and Miles were not included in last Saturday’s team, and Duffy (Marist) and Woods (Hospital; plpyed on Saturday, but have not been chosen again. The team will travel to Auckland on Thursday night of next week, and the Fiyger Cup eleven, which is also to play Auckland at Auckland on September 26, will travel north on the special excursion train leaving Wellington on the Friday night, September 25. The two teams will return on that train from Auckland on Sunday afternoon. FLYGER ROSE BOWL

The Wellington team to play Auckland at Auckland on September 26 will be selected from tne following players, who are requested to. be at the Basin Reserve pavilion on Wednesday.at 8 p.m.:— Tonks (Miramar), Harris, Robb, Watts and Walker (Waterside), Wrigley, Nevitt, Hicks and Salisbury (Island Bay), A. Scott and G. Whyte (Institute), Smith, Harris, Parker aud Leckie (Technical). .