ASSOCIATION CODE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1941, Page 5

ASSOCIATION CODE

EFFECT OF WAR

UNCERTAIN FUTURE

The impossibility, because of the war, of saying what the prospects for the coming season are likely to be is mentioned in the annual report of the New Zealand Football Association, to be presented to the annual meeting this week. "Many and supporters have joined the Forces and many others are likely to do so in the near future," states the report. "The position will be carefully considered and every endeavour will be made for the continuation of the game, if not in the senior grades then in the lower grades of football." The report extended the association's good wishes to the football players from all parts of New Zealand who had joined the Forces. A total of 559 teams was attached to associations affiliated with the N.Z.F.A., the report showed. These consisted of 287 club teams, 184 from primary schools, 60 from secondary schools, and 28 from sub-associations, etc. Auckland had the most of any province with 138 teams, and Wellington was next with 100. Canterbury had 98 and Otago 67. The report dealt with the F.A. Trophy, for which new conditions were laid down last season, and recorded that Wellington's winning of the trophy in the final game of the three played was a popular one with supporters of the game, as it was the first occasion on which Wellington had held the trophy. Twenty-seven clubs entered for the Chatham Cup knock-out competition, which was won for the third consecutive year by the Waterside Club, of Wellington. That club also won outright the Centennial Cup, a replica of the Chatham Cup, which was provided by members of the New Zealand Council to mark the Dominion's centenary.