THE WANGANUI CALEDONIAN SOCIETY'S "SECESSION."

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXII, Issue 12427, 28 March 1908, Page 2

THE WANGANUI CALEDONIAN SOCIETY'S "SECESSION."

In connection with the decision of the Wanganui Caledonian Society's decision to "secede" from the New Zealand Union (with which body, by the way, the' Society wasjiever affiliated), a peculiar position presents itself. The football, cricket, cycling, amateur running, and ' other bodies, as well as the New Zealand Athletic Union are affiliated to the New Zealand Sports Federation, and if the rules governing- the latter are carried out the Wanganui Society (providing they woift run under union rules) will find that the bodies named will withdraw their patronage, the whole gathering being then an unregistered one, with ultimate disqualification by football, cricket, etc., governing bodies. The above is what is i'oreshadowea by a Dimedin writer, trat if it is true that nearly all tbe Scottish Societies in the Dominion are going to secede from the N.Z. Athletic Union, what will happen then?