ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 244, 9 July 1920, Page 8

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL

AUCKLAND V. WELLINGTON. The meeting.of Auckland (challengers) and Wellington (holders) in the Drown Shield mutch, which is to take , place on the Basin Reserve to-morrow, will mark the twenty-first occasion on which the two Associations lmvo met. The results so far aro in favour of Auckland, the northerners having won twelve of the games. Tho first game in which tho two Associations met was played in 1891, and resulted in a win for Auckland. Tho last occasion on which the two Associations met was in Wellington' in 1918, when the locals were beaten by 2 goals to 1. The Auckfand Association is dispatching a strong combination, • and is going to make a big bid to return to Auckland with tho "blue riband" of Association football in New Zealand. As the top-dressing on the Basin Heservo is in gcod fast playing order, a good game is expected. Tho following is the Wellington eleven:—Goal, J. Porteous (Hospital); backs—J. Jl'Kenzie, E. Taylor (Thistle)'; halves—N. M'Arthur (Institute), W. Brownlees (Thistle), H. Batten (Hospital); forwards—G. Camphell, left wing (Thistle), C. Ballard (Y.M.C.A.), M. M'Blligctt, centre (Marist), H. Porter (Institute), J. Smith,' right wing (Institute). Mr. R. S. Lithgow will be the referee. An' invitation Ims been issued to tho convalescent men at Trentham Camp to bo present: In its dying stages yesterday the conference of the Council of Agriculture sat in solemn judgment on the rooks of Hawke's Bay. Conflicting reports were received, as to the activities of the* inhabitants of the rookeries, their conduct being reviewed when a Hawko'a Bay remit was tabled urging that rook« ba declared a pest and that it be an offence for any person to allow rookeries to exist on his property. The history of the rooks makes interesting reading.. It appears that some 40 years aco they were introduced into the province by the Acclimatisation Society, and settlers wer» asked to provide homes for them. The 'birds, according to one delegate, had multiplied and prospered, uutil now they lived on the fat of the laid to tho dt>triment of some of the farmers. On one station, it was declared, some 4000 rooks hud feathered their nests. The rooko found a champion in Sir Walter .Buchanan, who, ill the light of his early experience in England, considered that their virutes as grub-eaters balanced their vices. A southern delegate mentioned that the behaviour of the Riccur. j ton rooks was exemplary, as they in the main confined their activities to grubhunting. Ultimately, the conference divided on the question as to the fate of tho feathered accused, and tho majority favoured an acouitta'l.