SOCCER

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17029, 14 August 1929, Page 3

SOCCER

N.Z. COUNCIL MEETING SKERRETT CUP ALLOTTED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. The council of the New Zealand Football Association met to-night. When the primary schools' soccer tournament takes place in Welling ton, Mr. R. P. Harrison, headmaster of Belmont School, and a member of the minor division committee of Auckland, is to moot the Now Zealand council to discuss the matter of the tour of a New Zealand uchoolboy team to Australia next year. Mr. J. Stout was appointed to referee tho South Island final of tho Chatham Cup between Giago and Canterbury cm August 17. The council agreed to allocate the SkerroU Cup to the secondary schools tournament to be held in Auckland next, month. The trophy will be taken north by the Wellington secondary schools t'am. The members of the council subscribed to tho testimonial to Mr. F. .1. Wall, secretary of the English Football Association.

BESPECTACLED REFEREES PARTIAL EXEMPTION OF RULE (Per Pro 69 Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. As the result of a further discussion on tin' subject of bespectacled referees, the council of the N«W Zealand Football Association, at its meeting to-night, expressed its willingness to limit the operation of the rule, provided thit the request comes from or through tho New Zealand Referees' Association. The matter later became some* thing in the nature of a joke, for it transpired that while tho referee in question did wear glasses during the week, ho did not wear them when ref'orooing. The chairman of tho council, Mr. F. Campbell, pointed out that the, Now Zealand Referees' Association only asked for a ruling, and tho council simply quoted the English law. If the rigid application of tho rule would cause hardship, he thought the council could interpret it in a manner which would exclude local competitions from its operation, but lie thought it should apply to important matches such as the Football Association and Chatham Cup matches.