CORRESPONDENCE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 July 1910, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

[Our correspondents' opinions are tlioir own; the responsibility of editorial ones makes sufficient balInsi , fn* ilio wlifcor's -qhoulclers.! A FOOTBALL CRITICISM. To tho Editor Sir, —1 si'e by your issue of Thursday that the Horowheiiuii Rugby Union, alt its last nieetimg, Had under consideration the question of the fvia Toa club. Thjs cilmb is now grossly overduo wilWi Uβ affiliation fee, despite several "reminders" from .the Union. But im this case, as in so ninny others, the Union lias shamefully neglected its duty, and has absolutely ignored: the bylaws of tlie Union* which it was installed in office to maintain. Tt acltti'ally, on "Wednesday, allowed K\ a Ton till July 30Ui to pay in its jiffiliation fees. Xow, sir', Xo. If! of tho by-laws, page 8. says that "any club whose subscription is in larrear one numth From date of tho 'amiiml general nipo-tiiig slnll be suspended until «!icli subsfripti"M b'j p'iii'l, my] that the delegates of any sunh olub so siispdiirlcd bo fr,»-n t-ik-ing i part in_ iHie maiiagenient of bho I , man during sm-ii wispons'O'i." AccordiiLg to this by-law, Kia Ton should lose any -wits thalt it hn.s iraiued in the cl anipion.ebip comnetjitioii, n« it Iwifl bc> ( n 'Tis',,, n ,li -£ it>d since May according to thy I'V-It.ws, as t-ho anniia'l niw'+inir w.\s lie-Id in' ■April. How much tano--,,. W( , ]-•..,,( footballers gr)in.f to allow the Ihi ion to .scit,'it defiance the hy-l-vs fn favour one team pt tim pxpri.isp of another, n-wl tr> iv-lcn tlicniselres tbf* liiiitriiiiifr-nto-k of tho gwiu-ral piiblif.— Yours, etc., JONAH.