SOCCER FOOTBALL

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1933, Page 3

SOCCER FOOTBALL

PAST SEASON REVIEWED

Although the 1932 season was one of the longest and most strenuous seasons that have ever been experienced it has been able to come through- with continued success, and the association can still claim to be the most progressive in New Zealand, states the forty-second f nnual report of the Wellington Football Association to be presented at the annual meeting next Wednesday. Opening the season on April 16 ivith first division matches, and a match between the Navy and. a Wellington second division representative team in aid of the family of Able-Seaman Ribbins, who was washed overboard between Australia and New Zealand, interest was maintained throughout the twenty-seven weeks until the final, game against the Navy on October 15.'

Thirteen city, reserves in addition to the two playing .areas on the Basin Reserve were'allocated by the City Council. The accident insurance fund was still giving the association considerable concern, and at one stage of the season payments had to be suspended until such ti te as further funds were made available through a, picture benefit night. Referring to the financial position of the association, the report states that commencing the year's operations with amounts owing ■to sundry creditors to the extent of £200, and despite the econo-, mie conditions prevailing, the Manage-* ment Committee had been able to show a profit on the past season's operations. Capitation still showed a oecline owing to fewer teams in the higher divisions, but it was pleasing to note that with the exception of one second division team all clubs made every endeavour to meet their obligations to the association.1

The twelfth annual report of the Wellington Public Schools' Football Association states "that the past season was highly satisfactory both from the numerical strength of teams and the number of teachers taking an active part. The reorganised Webster Shield tournament was won by Wellington, after .1 highly successful series of games in Wellington. The tournament was made possible only by the generous financial assistance of the N.Z.F.A. and the hearty cooperation of the W.F.A. For future shield games the North Island associations will be in two sections, North and' South, the latter comprising Wellington, Manawatu, Wanganui, and possibly Wairarapa.