ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20222, 7 October 1927, Page 12

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.

MEETING OF NEW ZEALAND COUNCIL. (Pee United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 6. A meeting of the Council of the New Zealand Football Association was held tonight. „ , , , It was decided that a confidential report on the Ponsonby team when visiting Wellington for the Chatham Cup final be forwarded to the Auckland Association for submission to the Ponsonby Club for a reply. , It was decided to send an invitation to Australia to send a team of 17 players and a manager next May, to play five Saturday and six midweek games. An allowance to married men of 10s and to single men of 5s a day would be made, but they would not share in the profits. New Zealand would pay a return visit in 1929 on the same terms. The South African Football Association wrote stating that the question of a visit to New Zealand could not be decided until negotiations had been completed with Australia, which association desired to send a team to South Africa in 1928. No visiting team could be received in that year owing to the visit of the All Blacks to South Africa. The matter was deferred, as it was considered that the question of an exchange of visits withSouth Africa would have to be arranged in conjunction with the Australian Football Association. The appeal of the Northern Club (Otago) against the decision in the Chatham Cup final owing to its playing a man short, due to a wrong interpretation of the rules by members of the council, was dismissed as frivolous, and the appeal fee was forfeited. The Wanganui Football Association reported that it had reconsidered Ballantync's life disqualification. In view’ of the contradictory nature of the additional evidence it had been decided to reduce the original sentence to two years’ suspension. Nomads Club (Auckland) was allowed its appeal against the Comrades Club, which was ordered to lose the match on account of playing 12 men in a junior competition. In regard to the dispute between the Auckland and Canterbury Associations concerning the F. A. trophy, in which both associations claimed the trophy on good averages, each team having won two games and lost one, it was decided to send the whole of the facts to the English Football Association, asking for its decision in the matter. Mr F. Campbell’s proposal that the English Football Association bo asked to decide the matter on the goal average only was negatived.