Football.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3870, 7 May 1906, Page 2

Football.

inv lii I ■ ;.i iialv.) I %'■■■•■■ ’' f.v •! e remarks of the i. 1 : : i r gat'd mg the I';;' I; /■ i 'ion tv, puss an- < '.;■;!i•;■ l’i i- d<o the following : i:; il.-iy’s Kvpv.-ss: —“ It is ■ i; i- i’l’i-io; v I ; tv-b I hat the New /-•.e.-i i lin?: I '.; Union has refused i- i;iii.;■ tj; rl.e Ruahine Union—a ■: • ; 1 :t; h;.(]y -f footballers rei ■ i .!v ! ;■; 111 ■;i at Vvrodville, and em-hr.-deg D'untevirke and Pabiatua. 'T' J 1 hi.-ii Union lias been in i X’-t. i for a number of yezrs, and "f t e.inu!u;-:od its eiiiirs in a satis- - if'ir; manner. It hay every right rl lie.l Pabiatua teams will rear.;;i;■ <J;;t■ its jurisdie.l ion. No g ; i r-a ■ >ll has b.ton shown for :■ o' ;h b.v, - ion, and the Now Zea- ' ooi iin-hy Union has rightly deit; mittioi not to permit a movement n’r.inls in caiculatrd to damage foot!>•;;1 yioiM ally. The Woodville and i) ii.nevirke teams may have some I-;:use for ooinpluint against the ii iwki;’.-; Pay Union. If they have, t-h y should throw in their lot with rho rd ana warn or Cush Unions. The mnltijiluady of Unions is u thing which Ihe governing body baa determined to avoid an far os possible, i .d lovers of (lie sport will unanimously endorse the decision.” To dc-i.I categorical!jr with the rent trie-i. Ido not think the Express s any right ;o speak of the large body ( in- 000 odd) of footballers in d..-- tl: ;id as a nondescript body. U; i n as at present constituted is i !ar amut powerful body than any jl its n-iglib 'nr?. Of what is the 1 1 U-i;i-! u .xv composed—about li.a .tins --v-hib; the Ruahine

U,;:. ;i vv.,l ii ve between fifteen and ~i.;> ui'd'i’its jurisdiction. “The Lhi -h uiiiou li.is been in existence for v ;,an»hvr uf y..ars, and Ins conducted its .duivs in a erdsfactory ar.nny, ’ I ':.i liiaiiu’s secession an.m s ilut I cannot see the justifica i ;,a Ida the remark that the N.Z. i.'mui: li.u'hdy decided not to permit a m vein -i-t which is calculated t) dania;-.' f- 0.-bail generally. Are ■oh.-, ciaiins of some three hundred i otiailhiß io manage their own oil';,;; h in Muir own district of no con.mq.uTmw ; t nli ? lam positive that m i i'.or the Basil Union nor Hawke’s Buy ha-’i ns many footballers under th-. ir control as the Ruahine Union wih. TIK-i’ch :s boon dissatisfaction for • ii.s wiih ;iavvk,As Bay and the Bu.A) by ihc clubs under their conIto;, ami the efforts to get justice r.viv a l'.vu ys hi rile. The movement r ; f.yiTii r new Union was not the result i i hy action, but was only uud r aku.i aiter serious consideration. ;. Imp", that all the clubs who Invo pliii’.iited with the Ruahine Union wrl continue to unite in tlmic iui.‘i;3 to get justice for themselves and ilm or.r.so of football in the Bush * :.• O * I am na iicnhr’y requested to state thus ah cup futures us arranged will bo gouj on with. Another olTort is t) ho made to get the affiliaima quts.iou satvled, and the secretory of the Union has been advised that th; New Zealand Rugby Union I’ccornnv. cd going on with the fixture. Tin- cap fixtures will commence on Wednesday. The Woodville b.miors will play Excelsiors on the U d eal ion Gnound at o o’clock. Tim following is the Woodville I' .-rai - . Henry, -Mooteifh, Boyd, W, I’ii!mer, Walker, Wilson, Hutchins, He..ding, Pritchard, Crawford, Dew,

(files, Ebbeii, R. Palmer and J. Horliby. Tim juniors play Pahiatua at PaliiuMia on Wednesday (leaving E o.Evilio by drug at 1.15). The following is the junior team : liallun, R j ad, G rinlinton, McDonald, Burlacc-, Grieves, McCormick, Ham* bliog, A. Hutchins, Pritchard, IJ.-ighi wel !, McTavish, O’Brien, ib-esduie and H. Lawrence. Emer* gencies— A. Olivtr, J. McCormick ami 131 v.