ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19906, 28 September 1926, Page 13

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.

MEETING OF MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. ' The weekly meeting of the Management Committee of the Otago Football Association was held, last evening, the president, Mr J. B. M'Callurn, being in the chair. A DIVISION COMPETITION. It was decided to close the A division Competition and the Kaitangata Club were declared the winners. CHINESE CHARITY'CUP MATCH. It was also decided to play the Chinese Charity Cup match on Saturday at Culling Park starting at 3 p.m., between the winners of the A arid B divisions, Kaitangata and Northern respectively. As a curtain-raiser, a'match will be played between teams- representing the Referees’ Club and Otago Football Association past and present members, starting at 1.45 p.m. PRESENTATION OF CUPS. At the conclusion of the above games the First Grade cups will be presented to the winning clubs by the chairman of the Otago Football Association. Captains of the winning junior teams mio requested to attend the next meeting of the Management Committee to receive their cups on behalf of their clubs. OTAGO TEAM’S TOUR. A letter was received from the Auckland Football Association expressing the committee’s pleasure in having had a visit from the Otago representatives.. The writer further stated that the members of the team had made many friends by their fine behaviour both on and .off the field, and that Auckland footballers would look forward to renewing acquaintances when the Auckland team visited Dunedin next season. The letter was received with ap proval, and the secretary was instructed to forward an acknowledgment. The manager of the team, Mr A. JN. Smith, in his repart of the tour, also commented favourably on the behaviour ol tho team. They had been received with every hospitality in Christchurch. Welling ton and Auckland by the various officials of governing bodies and altogether the tap had boon an ©njoya.bl© one, although they bad not been successful in bringing the trophy south. Mr Smith was thanked for the time and trouble he had given to the position, and it was, also decided to write the northern bodies thanking them for the considerations shown to tho team. Mr J. • Simpson brought up the question of allocating the gold medal . resented to the association by mr Colin Aitcheeon, and Mr Smith was asked to decide. In selecting G. Anderson for the honour, Mr Smith stated that this members had been the most consistent player. He played sterling football in both the Canterbury and Auckland games, and notwithstanding four days travelling prior to the Auckland game it was wonderful the form he showed against the latter team throughout the whole of the 90 minutes’ play. It was decided to request Anderson to attend at Culling Park on Saturday to receive the medal. GENERAL. 'An invitation to the chairman to represent the Otago Football Association at the Otago Referees’ Club’s smoke concert on October 5 was received and accepted. The following players will represent the Referees’ Club on Saturday-.—Messrs J. Davidson, J Gordon, J. Simmonds, C. Smith, L. Preston, F. Smith, F. Eggers, J. Day, W. Smith, J Macklo and M. Stanaway. Emergencies—Messrs Newell, Preston, Young and Reay. _ THE - CASH-ON-DELIVERY PARCEL . SYSTEM. , TO THE EDITOB. Slß,—The C.O.D. facilities, provided by the Post office seem to have raised a hornet’s nest among the manufacturers and •hopkeepers of the Dominion. In the first place this trading is infinitesimal. I suppose there are 1000 tradesmen throughout these two lovely islands. If sop their individual turnover per annum is reduced-by £3, and 'heir profit pro ratio about £l. Surely not enough to complain very loudly about. , The C.O.D. system has this great advantage that when one is compelled to send Homo for a parcel one does riot have to give three months’ debit —that is, pay for the goods with order 10 or 12 weeks before delivery. I am quite sure no sane resident in Now Zealand goes to the bother of sending Home for anything (and submits to tne delay of three months’ delivery) that he can obtain equally wdl locally- Personally, I send Home for a favourite brand of -cigarettes not obtain able anywhere in New Zealand, and they now come 0.0. D. I used to have to send British postal orders in advance. Recently I .required a proprietary article of drapery. A London firm sent me its retail price list, and surprised ire with the news that So-and-so in Dunedin stocked its specialties. I got a bigger surprise at So-and-so’s —3os per dozen. 1 made use of C.0.D.; the London cost, plus post and Customs, amounted to 17s fid per dozen. Being a Scotchman from the Tweed, 1 could not see the advantage in throwing away 12s fid per dozen six times over. I would have gladly paid 20s per dozen here, because 1 know business overhead charges are greater here than at Home; but 12s fid per dozen extra—no! Let me assure the chambers of commerce that, whether they influence the Government to cut out the C.O.D. or not, these special parcels from Home will still be sent for, and New Zealand will lose the C.O.D.’s special benefit of having £31,000 per annum liquid in this country for three months extra. Let those chambers remember also that the poor British trader has to live on frozen Canterbury iamb (he cannot afford homefed in these hard times), so please. Pir. tr, to persuade them again not to grudge the Mother Homelander a few severeic tail trade. What if the Home chambers of commerce started a campaign throughout England exhorting the people to eat h-s r - i spend tho same amount on it by buying English meat to save the Englisn farmers from bankruptcy, bicause, although Now Zealand only sent 10 millions worth of mutton Home in 1925, there is no knowing what dimensions the trade may get to in the future. It would be more to the point if the New Zealand chambers of commerce urged their members and shopkeepers generally not to push American and foreign goods —ironmongery especially—when goods of British origin are obtainable.—l am, ete., Tweedie. September 25.