CODE IN NEW ZEALAND

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 183, 7 August 1935, Page 5

CODE IN NEW ZEALAND

MORE PROGRESS DESIRED EXTENSION TO COLLEGES After two hours’ discussion on the question of the way and means of improving Association football in the Dominion, members of the New Zealand Association Football Council agreed at a special meeting at Wellington on Tuesday night that before the game would go ahead in the manner desired it was necessary for it to be introduced into the secondary schools. “I consider that if we got into the secondary schools we would not be asking to-night what is wrong with the game,” said the secretary, Mr. A. Williams. Although members dealt with a variety of subjects, including the question of payment to referees, publicity and coaching grounds, a suggestion advanced by Mr. F. Sanders that an English schoolboys’ team should be induced to tour the Dominion was the only one that aroused real unanimous interest. Mr. Sanders said that in England there was a schoolboys’ association and their games attracted 60.000 or 70,000 people every rear. Eighteen of these boys, and two teachers, could be brought to New Zealand for £lOOO and there would be no difficulty in billeting them. if those boys could attract the men tioned number in England, added Mr. Sanders, every boy in the land would want, to see them in New Zealand and they would take their parents. The parents would see a game that, would convince them that it should L( played at. the colleges, and «chodMasters would have to listen to them.