CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3692, 17 September 1927, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To The Editor)

'Sir, —Once again I return to the subject that is interesting numerous followers and players of Rugby in Foxton, viz., a change from the biased control of the Horowbenua Union. Referring to the statement attributed to Mr Robinson “that the Foxon Club wanted to smash the Awahou Club,” could a statement be more false? Is the motive of such statement an effort to bring about a split between the members of the two Clubs in order to defeat the resolution passed at the public meeting recently held here, attended by members of both clubs and wherein they combined to bring about a change from the present unfair treatment meted out to Foxton Clubs? Now, Sir, I say right here that the Awahou Club was formed to smash the Foxton Club, as openly stated by Mr Robinson', whose, activities have not been in the best interests of the game or players. To say that the Foxton Club is trying to override Awahou Club is merely an attempt to cloud the issue, otherwise, as I have previously said, to disrupt the combined efforts of both clubs to get into a better run Union, where younger players ,will have a chance to get into big football, as well as to have their affairs managed by those whose interests are football, for the game’s sake, not as a means for any particular person to pose as the Supreme Diety in the Kingdom of Fobtball. To read the report of the Levin meeting is like reading a “penny horrible,” less the sense, and statements made at that meeting show just how weak those delegates are when we read the statements atti'ibuted to them which goes to show just how far they can be mislead by statements made beforehand to them by a cei’tain delegate. Now, Sir, after the meeting on Wednesday night, which, by the way seemed to have taken place with the object of keeping the Foxton Club’s ; delegate out, a mdeting of the Combined Union was held, and, as, the business ( was of the utmost concern to the Horowhenua Council, I would like the delegate of the Awahou Club to explain why he dodged the issue. Was it because he wanted to be on the safe side, so that after he could place the blame on his proxy? Or was it just to be on the winning side which ever way the issue went? Anyhow, I cannot see why the Union should quibble over Foxton and Awahou Clubs’ request for a change of boundaries by the treatment meted out to the local clubs as they have shown they don’t want the game here, so they have only themselves to blame. In passing, there are supposed to be about forty-five Awahous in Foxton. The delegate says half of them live over the I’iver. What rot! I believe about four or five, but. then, Sir, this statement,, like "many others from the same source, must be taken with a grain of salt.—Yours, etc. ANTI-MUDDLE. Sir, —As president of the Foxton Football Club, I cannot allow the statements made by Mr. F. Robinson at the last meeting of the Horowhenua Rugby Council to go unchallenged. Mr. Robinson is reported to have stated (1) “that he could assure the committee that there was no grievance against the Council at .Foxton;” (2) “that the only trouble was that there were two clubs in Foxton fighting againsteach other;” (3) “The Foxton Club seemed to be out to smash the Awahou Club.” To all these statements I give an unqualified denial and challenge Mr. Robinson to produce evidence in support of his statements. Can he deny or justify the Council’s treatment in connection with our thirds? Will he give one instance of bad feeling between members of the Foxton Club and his team; or that, the Foxton Club is out to smash Awahou? Can Mi’. Robinson deny that he ;and not the Awahou players has stirred up trouble. Our Club has no grievance against Awahou and I do not believe that the Awahou players endorse Mr. Robinson’s statements. So far as amalgamation is concerned our Club is prepared to welcome any one desiring to join and to do its best to promote the interests of Rugby locally. Yours etc., v_ vr H. HUTCHINS, President Foxton F.C.