FOOTBALL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14049, 20 July 1916, Page 5

FOOTBALL.

I The Management Committee of tJie Poverty Bay Rugby Onion niet last night. There were . presents— *-Messrs.« W. R. Burge (chairman), W. Howard,! li. E. Maude, P. Edmundson, and .1. C> E. Turner (lion. sec). ; It was decided to call the first-grade competition the senior competition, and there lwill also* be a schools competition, and any other competition the union may ttecidfe on. Tlie senior competition wiU be for the Sherratt Cup. and the schools competition for the De Costa Cup. " k The following teams have been en-' tered for tlie senior competition, ail players to be ineligible .for active ser- ' vice .v-Boys',' High School (colors, red and black) ; No. 65 Company Senior Cadets (colors, blue and black); No. 7 Company Senior Cadets ; and Makauri.-. It was. dcided to write to each of the teams, asking them • to appoint delegates to attend the annual meeting to be held ort a. date, to be arranged. The draw foi* the matches on Saturday was as follows : T -Boys' High School v. Makauri, on B.H.S. ground, aUj 2.30 p.m. (refereee, Mr..' J. C. E- Turner); No. C5 Cadets v. No., 7 Cadets, 011 Do main Ground, at 2.30 p.m, (referee, Mr. A: Wallace): Referees wero appointed as follows tc. control the school matches Jon Satul'day miming: — Messrs. W. R. ' Burge, W. Howard, and M.'.-G-- Nasmith, iunr. Coaches in connection with the schools competition were appointed* as under : — ConvCnt School, Mr. W. Dooley ; Te Hapara, Mr. Turekei Pere; Gisborne A and B, Mr. W. Howard ; Mangapapa/ teachefs at school. * ' •" The Waerenga-a-hika .Native College applied for inclusion in one of the competitions. It was decided to send 1 repiy, stating that a match would be arranged for tho College against a town team on a suitable date So that the union may judge to some extent the capabilities of the team, and that they may decide inwhicli competition to n elude the College team. Season tickets were decided upon, and the secretary instructed to procure suitable tickets — to be sold at 2s 6d each— which will admit holders to all games played on the ground this season, including any repi*esentativo fixtures whiA may be arranged. Alter discussion it was decided that the union should remit all affiliation fees, but a registration fee of Is «per player should be charged: The secretary 7 was instructed to write to the Hawke's Bay, Union, asking if they could arrange for a Hawke's Bay rep. team to visit Gisborpe. mmmmmm — — — gg