ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL

Taranaki Daily News, 18 May 1928, Page 7

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL

DECISIONS OF THE COUNCIL. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The, first meeting of the New Zealand Soccer Council since the annual meeting was held to-night, Mr. F. Campbell (chairman) presiding. The following committees were elected: Finance, Messrs. F. Campbell, H. H. Renai, B. L. fsalniOn, H. L. Godber, and A. J. Hyder; competitions, Messrs. F. Sanders, A. Varney, W. G. Bryce, B. L. Salmon and J. A. Milburn. It was decided to make the Football Association trophy a challenge competition to be played on the lines of the Brown Shield, the first match to be played between Auckland and Canterbury at Canterbury or Auckland, as may be agreed; otherwise as ordered by th® council. The matter' of making a levy on play-. ers was left to the finance committee. The matter of the payment of delegates’ expenses was also referred to tho finance committee. The associations are to be circularised on the question of sending a schoolboys’ team to tour Australia. Messrs. Campbell, Varney and Hyder are to consider the question of combining the offices of secretary and treasurer. Permission was given South Canterbury to play Canterbury on June ■*. It is probable that the guarantors cf the local- associations in connection with the Canadian tour will be released ia the course of a few days.