FOOTBALL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10782, 2 June 1911, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

NEW ZEALAND RUGBY UNION: (PJot Pkess Association.) Wellington, June 1. Tlie Management Committee' of the Rugby Union met to-night. /' : A team of the Te Ante College Old Boys asked permission to tour New South Wales. It was decided that they In- informed tlie Committee, could not accede to the request, but that they be recommended to renew the request next season. Mr T. Parata asked permission for the. Maori team which toured Australia last year to play a few matches in the North Island. It was decided to ask for particulars as to whether- the team proposed to tour as representing the Bay of Plenty Union, a decision being meanwhile deferred. • The Nelson Union asked for a loan. It was decided to reply that no funds are available. -

The following team will represent tlie Athletic first fifteen against Kurow oil Saturday at 1.45 p.m.: Reynolds, Smith, Wallace, S. Fraser, Ross, Rodders, King, Doran, Diver, Nightingale, Clarke, Lee, Matheson, Harrison, Robson, H. Diver. The following will represent Athletic second on Saturday, at 9.45 _ a.m., on the Caledonian Grounds: Spiers, Orr, Bermingham, Rohson, Montgomery, Sparks, Diver, Conuell, Sang, Collett (captain), Paterson, Phillips, Gilliand, Fraser (2). 'Emergencies: Robertson, Campbell, and James. The following will play for the Excelsior Football Club on the Caledonian.Ground to-morrow: —First: M'Kenzie, Calder, Rivers, Sinclair, J. Muldrew, Martyn, H. Muldrew, J. Lindsay, Annand, Cunningham, Goodall, Oliver, Ptillinger, Paton, Ward, W. White, Young, Cottingham, Aitken, Smith. Second: Caldwell, Keith, Stagpoole, Bateman, Milligan, Bain, Young (2), Rosie, M'Kenzie, Gordon, Robinson, Eccles (2), de Courcey, Cngney, Dorward, Roach, Rusbatcli, Robertson, Sherwin, Daly, Connell, Garnett. The following will represent the Old Boys' second fifteen against Waitaki High School on the Caledonian ground on Saturday, at 11.15 a.m.: Tait, Gubbins, R. King, Stephens, Creagh, A. Gibb, Cooney, Cunningham, Steenson, G. Monson, Ironside, C. King, Tempero, Milne, Familton. Emergencies: Findlay, Hood, Gibb. The following players will represent the Old Boys' first fifteen against the Excelsion Club at the Caledonian Ground to-morrow, at 2.15 p.m.:— M'Dou all, Scolon, Ongley, G'renfell, Uttley (2), Ireland, Cooney, Allan, At-; kinson, Molloy. M'Culloch, Borria James, Shand,. Fraser.

ASSOCIATION. Wellington, June !>. The Council of the New Zealand Football Association met to-night. It was decided that the matter of a visit from the New South Wales team be deferred till the end of the season, when the question will be considered with a view to arranging a tour next year. A communication from the New Plymouth Club about the manner in which "the affairs of the Taranaki Association were managed, was referred back to the Club, the meeting holding that communications from clubs should be forwarded to the Council through the governing association. The Manawatu Association notified that it had arranged for a match with Wanganui, to be played on June 3rd, and asking the Council's permission foi the game to take place. The application was granted. It was decided to ask the Canterbury Association to arrange" a date for its match with Otago, and to notify it that a challenge for the Brown Shield had been received from Manawatu.

It was decided that 5 per cent, nf the net proceeds of the CanterburyOtago match be retained by the Council, and thjit the New Zealand Referees' Association be asked to appoint an official.