A WEEK-END IN WELLINGTON, HA!HA!

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 162, 29 September 1927, Page 8

A WEEK-END IN WELLINGTON, HA!HA!

On Tour With the Soccer Boys — Weird Ways in Windy City — Where Was the N.Z. Council?

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L O '* £ i IL f £. s pteaagd ai§ Pouch, and ab*s«t; i_a self- : Cf&oocaiHßai a* 2-iOSe - rtr. 4FO k,SO*2 r. y , C I 'i a c3&c£atte. headed by Mr. EL V. why j cSasjaed Ln LL* **■*■ tltor: WMBChP Rxed iteailiAja. Cep, trooped inn"., | t&s meeting rocm o' the Management ©MBzrutfcee o' the ' Auckland Foot-boLEI Asgocia. tR-n on T uesday 'evening, to h*e greeted. with grin:* and a Rod rLpptcg- of baads. After Mr. Menacse* bad coryatolAted the cliub on its smeoesse in bringing the cup back, Lome with it. Mr. Roberts t the crack billiard player, 07 • the way/, got on has feet, and told the meeting an iniecnating tale concerning the treatment they had received while in Weill ngton. and in doing *0 it tan only be said, that it*e did anything fctt praise the members of the New Zealand CogneS. B<it let the story be told: “W® btft Auckland on Thursday evening — of coarse, it really =ho«..d have bee cl Wednesday, bat th.a* doeasi.'t: matter — and, after rather a detent train joarr.ey we arrived at Wellington on Friday morning. We stepp»*id ; ott on to the platform, and took a look at this capital cdty 'as much ;as tre could see of ix>, and I might say. that the instalment o-f scener y visible to the eye -araa mighty poor. There ' no i&ne there to meet us., and after we had been moping round a Lit it audden.tly dawned upon as that tire, were more or less stranded. Ho■s'« - ry. the situation improved somewhat when one of the team spotted Mr. Atkinson, secretary of the New Zealand Coin .1 bustling lh.rough the gates and coining toward us. E£e Informed us that *zre were to stop at the Hotel Bristol— a • dry house, by the vaj. PLACATING CERBERUS ; Xatanilly there was- no luxurious taxicabs at oar beck and call, so the bo-yn jumped Into a tram and made off for the Bristol Wet carried small • handbags vitii us, and vhen the 'conductor came along and demanded three - j pence each from us, beside* our fare, the boys certainly showed up strong at delivering audible sounds of disapproval, but there was no way out of it. We had either to pay the threepence or get off the tram. We paid. • However, we arrived at the Bristol, and got settled. in the afternoon we went out for a. run,, just, to take he stiffness out of the boys, but still we did not get a chance to set our sighbe on any member of the council. Back at the pub that night, mood ing over the ' situation a bit, and considering lit as cr;de a piece of business as a hear - raid on the Newton reservoir, we got a ring on the phone from one oil ihe: members of the council, and he asked us if we would like to go to Fuller's, as IS seats had been booked foir us. We jumped at the idea. WE GO TO FULLER'S ‘We all arrived at Fuller's in a body, and in force, but another thrill . trickled down our spines when we found that there was no one there to Let us know the ins and out of the procedure. After a good while, I plucked ui? courage, and, putting on ! some of the polite habiliments of ex- ’ temal society, went Into the manager j and inquired about the seats. He did not seem to know any more about ‘ them than we did, but after a bit of ! a yangling we got In. The show Was . rather good, and we enjoyed it. That j night many of the boys were firmly of the opinion that the lackadaisical , attitude which the council were tak- \ ing was enough to ser»d the whole ] team to drink, or some other harmful } and delirious amusement. "At about ten o’clock next morning a ( surprise of really incredible proper- , tions awaited us, for who should arrive on the scene but Mr. Varney, and two or three other members of the council. We were very pleased to see them, as would be expected; but tvhen we noticed that they were wear- t ing the South Island Clubs' colours - c they did not seem to altogether meet * with our approval, and we suggested t to them that they might at least buy c 1 Ponsonby tie each. They' did this, '<

* &nd of coarse it —= a. bit oC e s c o 3 r agement. y Sariy in the asffcevf! noon. we get 2. &K. j • we wer? ctr.Tr- • -jr 1 ©n. in I*aaE aid if bcunf,« from • Sharks = tQ I a e*st trcn a. tram ro a. OTIS. It appealed .' -siO —m_L*il' .C-5.V?; S'-” t 3k lift &®e* to Aockl&sd bj airpteae. Arriving a: the er’c-'and. -we found only one j TfWWuißw-r -sf ike csHsneii there to greet This also looked very cheerCaL “However, the got under ’ acdl it showed signs of being at good -•no. wltliost any Switch, but it halftime tiis refoee begins to sing a *o cr to the tur* that t&c oafeetrs were coc* fusing- and ns TO'ild like PonsoaEity to Of c©*nrse —e nefoaed. for at this stfage w e coosdcir%4 that w~ s&ooat os the sane par as a cricketer when he Las 55 rm up Ms sleeve. would not be likely tL.it he Bnt the referee seemed to pat iti-= foot down, end it was evident that either one team or the other would ha-re to o Lange. I suggested that we ' but the captain of the Southern team said that their eofe&urs —ere 'all 6 rislLti And so are osrs.' I said. We : THE HARD WORD “We —ent tack to the pub after the. match, feeling quite pleased with o«r 1 -!sß^n » after putting ourselves round a decent meal we trooped down to the o*os-- to see the Xorthem Club of? A=2hu the council had Sim-dammed it tc-rir duty, for there was not one member down at the barf to say cheerio. However, after all the members of the team had had a sip out of the Chatham Cup. which was at this time filled vritis something you couldn't get at the Bristol. they left us with many fond farewells. ’“On S unday night we wens busy packing up, and were about tc» make a dash for the train, when the hotelseene.’ iag-i i- in ar.i - to pay for our board before we left, as be had heard nothing regarding the matter from the New Zealand Council. “ ‘WeVe g©t no money to pay you.* II safd, and with that a very hot and strong argument started between the hotelkeeper ard myself. I immediately rang Mr. on the phone, and he kindly informed me that we would have to pay before we left, ids left me feeling as if I had taken a solar plexus punch, and the team, were beginning to think that they would have to spend the rest of th.€dr days at Hotel Bristol, Wellington, or at least wait there until the pleasure of the council, ami chat would have been Doomsday, I reckon. GOOD-BYE TO WELLINGTON I tried to pacify mine host, but it was a big job, and after I bad made heaps of promises, one of which, was that the Auckland Football Association would send the necessary as soon as we got back- he let us go, and we left him standing on the doorstep with a rather doubtful look in fcis eye. I had a feeling ail the time duriins that argument with Boniface that he might bring the police in, and this would have been a rotten Sniah to the trip. Anyhovr, we got away, and there was not one member of the council to see Ks depart. But by this time we were getting used to their absence, no it did not matter/* Continuing. Mr. Roberts said that the New Zealand Council were absoEutely a back number, and he thought something should be done to get the right men to run things. The match was the final of the New Zealand club na impious hip, and yet he saw no advertising about the game. A Voice: Oh, yes, I saw a small poster in one of the back streets. There is absolutely no encouragement for any team to go down there md play football," said Mr. Roberts’ I have brought the medals up here o be engraved, and we will get them JJ>®« and charge them up to the conn-