BOYS' SOCCER TEAM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19959, 30 May 1928, Page 12

BOYS' SOCCER TEAM.

AUSTRALIAN TOUR PROPOSED COUNCIL ADOPTS REPORT. [By TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The council of the New Zealand Football Association this evening considered a report by the competitions committee on a proposed tour by a New Zealand schoolboys' team to Australia during the present season. The committee recommended that the tour should be for a period of five weeks, including time of travel, and that it should include New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. The team should consist of 18 players, and should be chosen from all associations under the jurisdiction of the New Zealand Association. The committee desired that a thoroughly representative team should be selected, irrespective of the associations, and that the North Island and South Island Public Schools' Football Associations be asked to nominate selectors, two from each Island; one selector, to be chairman, to be selected by the New Zealand Council. If possible, the ages of the team should be fixed at 15 on June 30, 1928. The team should leave New Zealand about August 1, so as to include the term holidays and so reduce the time from school to a minimum. The tour should be educational as well as athletic. The committee further recommend that a manager and assistant-manager be appointed. Entertainments should chiefly comprise visits to places of geographical, historical and industrial interest. A full night s rest was essential after any train or boat, travel before a match was played, and there should be no entertainment on the night preceding a match. The committee estimated that the expenses of the tour, including assembling in Wellington, would be approximately £420. and recommended ihnt. each of the associations give £22 10s for each boy from its district, and the managers also pay £ls toward the fund. The sum raised would then amount to £435. Pocket money should be limited to £5 for each boy. and should be placed in the hands of tlifl manager. The report was unanimously adopted, and is to be forwarded to the associations.