“We Are Run by Small Town Politics”
DOMINION RUGBY Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, May 10. “We are run by small-town politics in New Zealand football,” said the president of the Canterbury Union, Mr J. K. Moloney, at the management committee’s meeting to-night. Reporting on the recent annual meeting of the New Zealand union, Mr Moloney said that the failure of one of the Canterbury union’s nominees to secure an appointment to one of the major offices on the union was due to “lobbying” on behalf of the nominee of the small unions. “We did our best, but the fates were against us,” Mr Moloney said. Canterbury delegates in their innocence had thought that only South Island delegates voted for South Island representatives on the council, but they were surprised to find that North Island delegates also voted. However, they were gratified that Mr J. H. Parker had been elected to the union executive. “The worst meeting I have ever been at” was Mr Moloney's description of that part of the gathering which considered remits for submission to the international conference. “It did no good at all.” he said.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 109, 11 May 1939, Page 5
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