CENTRALISATION OF RUGBY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 91, 25 May 1949, Page 4

CENTRALISATION OF RUGBY

Sir, —It was interesting to read in a recent issue of the Beacon the letter of one of the Taneatua Football Club’s delegates on the centralisation of Rugby in the Whakatane Union. He expressed his own opinion on the subject (as he is quite entitled to do) and that he did not vote for the scheme. Whether this be the case or not it is a fact that at the annual meeting of the Union only two votes were recorded against the scheme, and they were by the two Waimana delegates. It is recorded that at the meeting a Taneatua delegate said that Taneatua supported centralisation of Rugby at Taneatua and Whakatane. Actually, who voted for the scheme or against it is not important, but what is important in such a ease is the attitude of the delegates. A club delegate takes his orders from his club and must vote' accordingly, irrespective of his personal feelings'. If the Taneatua club delegates were instructed to vote for centralising Rugby they had no other course open but i to vote that way. If they allowed personal feelings to interfere and did not carry out their instructions then they were failing in their duty. , The duties of club delegates are not always easy to carry out. But club instructions must be obeyed. If a delegate is not willing to carry out those instructions he has only one course open and that is to give, the job. to some one who will. Yours etc., FRONT ROW.