ASSOCIATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 87, 13 April 1911, Page 4

ASSOCIATION.

- J MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE. ' , The Management _Commi.tee of the; Wellington. "Football Association - met - «lasfc ■ evening, ">Mr. H. N. Holmes presiding. "The"Pefco_e Club wrote stating,- as it. k jyas unable to obtain another ground *_t T&o_e7~tlJif^urLior "IJeam *_a_ *" decided _ to .travel.l In viejy .of .the rather heavy expense of players travelling all the way from Pefcone to Miramax, a suggestion ' was thrown, cuV~by ' the club that the junior^ '^stonjd^e located- each. Saturday on city reserves. - The meeting decided to enquire' if if^v/as possible for the club to obtain -_* ground on the Hutt Park. - - A request for ' a ball' was received from Mr. H. .Power ; for -the Maranui School,'* a dozen boys of which institiu•tion were playing Association. 'The secretary was 'instructed '■ to ascertain whether a team ■ was to be- put in the field by the school this season. Subject to certain conditions, the Swifts Club, was granted permission to arrange -a boys' match with either Blenheim or Palmerston on 3rd June or 23rd June. __'~ The St. Anne's Club, which has entered a fourth-class team, was affiliated , to the association. It was reported that, so far, the fol- .. lowing number of teams had been entered, for the different competitions : — JTirst division, 10 ; second, 9 ; third, 8 ; fourth, 11; fifth, 13, -sixth, 8. Mr. Alexander Eeid wrote offering to -donate a gold m&dal to the player attaining the highest goal average in Leagu? competitions;: for the year. It was decided to accept the gift if Mr. Eeid •would undertake to give the medal for competition • for the most improved player. The committee resolved, on Mr. Salmon's initiative, to communicate with the Ofcago and Blenheim Associations, , inviting them to send representative boys' teams to Wellington towards the end of the season." FIXTUBES FOII FIRST HOUND. Fixtures and ground for first division ' -teams for the first round, this season are as follow :— 22n<l April : Swifts v. V.M.C.A., at Basin Reserve; Rovers v. Diamonds, at No. 6, Miramar; floe^ pital v. Ramblers, at Porirua; Thistle v. St. John's, at Kelburne; Corinthians v. Wanderers, at Newtown Park1 'On 29th April : Hospital v. Wanderers, ' «t Porirua; Swifts v. Diamonds, at jSTewtown Park ; Corinthians v. V.M.C.A., at Kelburne; Ramblers v. Thistle, at Miramar; Rovers v. St. John's, at Basin Reserve, j

On 6th May : V.M.C.A. v. Diamonds, at Newtown Park ; Ilospital v. Rovers, at Porirua ; Swifts v. St. John's, at Miramar; Corinthians v. Thistle, at Ivelbtrrne; Wanderers v. Ramblers, at; Basin Reserve.