JUNIOR FOOTBALL

Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1935, Page 9

JUNIOR FOOTBALL

UNION REPLY TO CRITICISM.

SENIOR CLUBS’ RESPONSIBILITY.

The responsibility for junior football fell to the senior clubs, said the Hon. J. McLeod, this year’s president of the Taranaki Rugby Union, at the annual meeting of the union at Stratford last night, replying to criticism of the union offered at the annual meeting of central division junior delegates last week. Taranaki was the only district, he believed, in which the union gave so mu’ch assistance to senior clubs.

• In making its suggestion that the union should give more help to junior football, said Mr. McLeod, the meeting had been under a total misapprehension. The central division was working under the same system as all the other junior divisions in Taranaki. That system had been adopted after a conference of delegates. Junior football was the responsibility of the senior clubs drawing from the junior teams concerned, said Mr. McLeod. The union helped the clubs to an extent he did not think existed in any other union, refunding 55 per cent, of the gate takings to the clubs. The only way in which he could suggest the union could give greater help was by improving senior football and increasing the gates.