SPORTS AND GAMES
SOCCER DISPUTE. CHRISTCHURCH, July 16. An appeal to Canterbury Football Association and its Referees’ Association _to get together and settle their dispute was made in a motion passed by the Thistle Football Club at a special general meeting this evening. The club also reconsidered its decision to withhold its teams from competition play, pending a settlement of the dispute, which has arisen from the refusal of referees to control games until an apology is received from Mr B. O. Priddis for remarks allegedly made by him at a. recent meeting of the Management Committee. The club’s meeting was addressed by Mr R. B. Bunt (secretary of the Canterbury Football Association), and Mr J. E. Jones (a member of the Management Committee), who claimed that Mr Priddis had been wrongly reported. Mr J. Stout (president of the Referees’ Association) asserted Mr Priddis was correctly reported as saying the referees “could find fifteen bob to go to a pub on a Saturday while they were unwilling to pay for season tickets to games.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 July 1941, Page 10
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