SOCCER

Evening Star, Issue 20591, 17 September 1930, Page 4

SOCCER

NEW ZEALAND COUNCIL MEETING OVERSEAS TOURS [Pbx Uhitbd P*b»* Amocutioh.] WELLINGTON, September 16. A year or so ago the New Zealand Football Association wrote to the English Football Association as to the possibility of sending British teams to the dominion each alternate year. The proposal was disseminated through the Press all over the world, and the South African Football Association has now written , to the Now Zealand body welcoming the proposal and asking for further information. At the meeting of the Council of the New Zealand Football Association to-night a, letter was received from South Africa stating that the association would welcome some such proposal. A further suggestion was made that the English Football Association should consider the possibility of organising a scheme whereby an English team of young players would tour New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and South Africa in successive seasons, making a regular programme of Empire tours. It was agreed to send particulars of the request made to the English Football Association, to South Africa, and to the Canadian and Australian Football Associations in the hope that al of them would give it their support and communicate with the English Football Association on similar lines.

' Western Christchurch forwarded its account for travelling expenses in coming to Wellington to play tho final of tho Chatham Cup, amounting to £44 Ils 2d. Tho Wellington Association, which managed the game, reported that the gate was £52 15s 2d, against which £l2 general expenses would be charged and £2O as a ground charge for .the Basin Reserve, leaving a balance of £2O 5s 2d towards the expenses of the Western team. It was decided to write to tho Wellington Association expressing regret that it had seen fit to make a ground charge of £2O, as it was the visiting team which would suffer and not tho New Zealand Football Association.

Tho South Auckland Association was granted permission to play Auckland at Hamilton on October 4, and to extend the season until October 11.

Suspensions of Auckland players by the Auckland Association for breaches of laws were approved, and also that of a Canterbury player suspended for six mouths for kicking another player, the council further specifying that ’the suspension should be for six playing months.

The Otago Association was given permission to pky a match; Otago v. Southland, at Dunedin, on September 27.