FOOTBALL

Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 2314, 22 March 1930, Page 3

FOOTBALL

UNITED CLUB.

ANNUAL MEETING

The annual meeting of the United Football Club was held on Thursday evening in Mr Gardiner's tea-rooms, when Mr A. E. Harris presided over a fair attendance of players and supporters. A vote of sympathy was passed with the families of the late Mr J. Foster and the late Mrs J. Taylor

Report and Balance Sheet.

The annual report was as under: —

The executive of the club has no winning achievements to chronicle for the 1929 season, but can lay/claim to having fulfilled'thc .' season's obligations in quite a substantial way. Each of the three teams entered by the club did swell in the championship matches, displaying a very fair standard of play on the field. Throughout the season the club spirit was maintained in a very excellent manner, a state of affairs very gratifying to the management of the club and quite necessary from the executive's point of view. If the same degree of club spirit is displayed again in the coming season (and we expect it will be) then we expect better results than last year, and hope that some C.R.v'J. trophies may fall to the club for the season's keeping. The club congratulates those members who -were successful in gaining representative honours in their respective grades, and recommends those who wore not so successful to continue in their remembering that even the famous All Blacks have to be chosen from the ranks of clubs such as our own. The executive offers seasonal greetings to 'the Cambridge Rugby SubTfnion and congratulates that body on the success it attained in all grades last season, and hopes for even greater success this season. Balance Sheet. The balance sheet showed a credit of £5 3/8 for the season's working, and showed that the club had been run on very business-like lines. Election of Officers. The following were the officers elec-

ted for the ensuing year:—

Patron, Mr C. H. Priestley,- presi- ! dent, Mr W. Wilkinson; vice-president* Messrs E. Martyn, H. Speight, 'os Tfc. ,. Edwards, B. H. Bishop, J. B. GardiHerj r A. E. Harris; secretary and Mr S. Nicholson; committee, Preside©*, vice-presidents, secretary, and Messrs Batchelor, Clarke, J. Wilkinson, and one representative from each of tike* three grades, who will be selected after the first game of the season. Dele> gates to union, Messrs A. E. Harris and W. Wilkinson. Mr Harris to be votingr member unless otherwise arranged be* tween themselves.

It was decided that the arranging of the club's voting strength at the annual meeting of the sub-union be foffcin the hands of the managements committee. Taranakl System. The meeting resolved that the club's delegates to the sub-union be directed to impress upon the parent body the possibilities of the Taranaki system. Subscriptions. Subscriptions were set at: Seniors, 5/-; Juniors, 3/-; third-grade, 1/-, for the coming season. • General. Mr F. Cooper was reelected to Imposition of club captain. ! - < ! ! : JyCoachs were left in the hands of tfiflf committee to allocate. A recommendation to the read that the coach and captain of thet various grades be the selection com*mittce. It was recommended to the commit*tee that the first. practice match b<£ held on the sth of April. Quite a number' of new members' names were handed in at the meetings A vote of thanks was passed to Mr Gardiner for the use of his rooms, and? also to all out-going officers.