LEAGUE DISQUALIFICATIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20039, 4 March 1927, Page 10

LEAGUE DISQUALIFICATIONS.

CRITICISM OF COUNCIL. SOUTH ISLAND DELEGATE’S COMPLAINT. (Per United Press Association.) GREYAIOUTH, March 3. Air J. D. Wingham, vice-president of the New Zealand Football League Council a South Island representative, and president of the West Coast Centre, complains that he received no official notification that an inquiry was being held, thus he did not attend yesterdays inquiry. He states: , “If the disqualified men appeal the whole matter must come before a really full meeting of the council. Alany of the delegates at Auckland do not cut much ice in the opinion of West Coast League supporters, and the locale of the council should be shifted to Wellington. So far as I know, Dr Thacker, the other South Island delegate, was not present at yesterday’s inquiry. I telegraphed to the council yesterday for information regarding the result of the inquiry, but no reply has yet come to hand. The council ignored me, and I consider the West Coast has been treated very unfairly. OPINION IN CANTERBURY. SUPPORT FOR COUNCIL. (Special to Daily Times.) CHRISTCHURCH, March 3. That the New Zealand Rugby League Council had no other course but to disqualify for life the seven players who “struck” on the English tour was the general opinion expressed by leading League men in Canterbury to-day. “I thoroughly endorse what the council has done,” said Dr H, J. Thacker, patron of the New Zealand Rugby League, and president of the Canterbury Centre and the Monica Park Board of Control. The firm action will probably have a salutary effect on League football in New Zealand. It may prune it back, but pruning does good.”