WHAKATANE CLUB

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 1, 21 April 1939, Page 7

WHAKATANE CLUB

JUNIOR FOOTBALL DISCUSSED .FLOODLIGHTING THE DOMAIN Two main points of interest were discussed at the annual meeting of the Whakatane Rugby Football Club held in the borough chambers, Whakatane, on Tuesday night. The first was a proposal that steps be taken, to unite the Star and Old Boys junior teams with the Whakatane Club. It was admitted that in the past great trouble had been cans, ed to the junior teams by the senior | team taking their players in order to field a side, and interference in other ways, and it was suggested that an undertaking should be given to the juniors that the senior team would default if short of men before embarrassing a junior team by taking its best players. It was decided to recommend to the executive that it meet the junior clubs to discuss amalgamation. Iu the meanwhile the affiliatip n of the Old Boys Club was accepted. Another interesting suggestion was that the Whakatane sub.union and the clubs should consider the possL | bilitj- of floodlighting the Domain J for practice and training, the cost J

of the floodlights to be borne by those concerned. It was suggested that other sports bodies might be willing to co-operate. Members agreed th»t it would be of great bene fit to the game to have proper twining facilities and the Whakatane delegates to the sub-union were in. structed to bring the matter forward lat the meeting to.night. Practice nights were fixed for Tucs , daj* and Thursday, members to meet | on the Domain at 5.30 p.m. lor the | first few runs. Tt was decided t 0 ac'cept an invitation to play a friendly j match against Edgecumbe at Edgecumbe to.morrow (Saturday). Subscriptions were fixed at -s with insurance os. Officers were elected as follows: —■ Patron, Mr E. H. Cucksey; president, Mr L. Onnond; club captain, Mr D. Wilson; secretary, Mr J. Denham; auditor, Mr E. Baxter; selectors, the club captain and team captain: delegates to the sub-union, Mr J. Conoliy (senior) and Mr J. White; com-1 mittee,, Messrs J. Whitehead, L. llaynor, J. White, A. Webb, "B. Butland, K. Hollis,, J. Best.