ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 50, 28 February 1930, Page 16

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL

Mr W.-B.'Hicks presided on Wednesday at the. thirtieth and final meeting ot the management committee of the Wellington Football Association (Incorporated), tor the ■past season. ■ ' Regarding the proposed tour ot a New Zealand team to Australia early m the coming football season, correspondence was received from the New Zealand Council, and it: was decided to agree with the proposal as outlined. It was decided that the' Wellington Association would be willing to make a grant towards fitting out the number of players selected under its jurisdiction: v It ;was decided to give hearty co-opera; tion to the proposal to send a schoolboys team to Australia. Eighteen players are I to be selected, five from North and South Auckland, five - from Manawatu, Wanganui, Taranaki, Hawkes Bayi aud Wellirigton; four from Westland, South Canterbury, and Canterbury, and four from Otago and Southland. The length of the tour will be six weeks, to include the second term two weeks' holiday. The annual meeting of the association was fixed for the 20th March. On 19th March a special general meeting of delegates will consider the notice of motion, to be moved on behalf of the Management Committee, by Mr. J. J. Roberts, president: "That a first, second, and third division league be created, comprising not more than eight teams in each league; and reserve leagues be created, the entries of the latter to be not limited. Promotion and relegation of the top and bottom teams in the first, second, and third division leagues at the end of each season to operate, and promotion and relegation to apply likewise between the reserve leagues within themselves." Nominations for members of the Management Committee, other than the present sitting members, must be forwarded to the secretary within two weeks of the annual meeting, and under the new rules adopted last year for the Junior Management Committee, nominations from clubs liaving teams in the fourth division and downwards must be in the hands of the secretary fourteen days before the annual meeting. It. was decided to send letters to the patron of the association on the eve of his departure for the Old Country, wishing him bon voyage, and to Mr. W. Thomas, who leaves Wellington next week to take up his residence in Melbourne, thanking him for the great assistance he has. been to Wellington football, and pari ticularly to the schoolboys.