SOCCER CONTROL

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 169, 7 October 1927, Page 11

SOCCER CONTROL

DOMINION COUNCIL INVITATION TO AUSTRALIA Press Association. WELLINGTON, Thursday. A meeting of the Council of the New' Zeala.nd Football Association waj held to-night. • A confidential report on the Ponsoriby team when visiting Wellington . for the Chatham Cup final is to be forwarded to the Auckland Association for submission to the Punsonby Club for a reply. It was decided to send an invitation to Australia to send a team of 17 players and a manager next May to play five Saturday and six mid-week games. An allowance will be made to married men of 10s and to single men of 5s a day. Australia, will have no »ha.re of the profits. # lt in proposed New Zealand should pay a return visit in 1929 on the same terms. The South African Football Association wrote stating that the question of a visit tc* New Zealand could not be decided until negotiations had been completed with Australia, which association desired to send a team to South Africa in 1928. No visiting team could be received in that year owing to the visit of the All Blacks to South Africa. The matter was deferred, as it was considered that the questioc of an exchange of visits with South Africa would have to be arranged in conjunction with the Australian Football Association. The appeal of the Northern Club. Otago, against the decision In the Chatham Cup final owing to their playing a man short due to a wrong Interpretation of the rules by memt*ers of the council was dismissed as frivolous and the appeal fee was forfeited. Nomads (Auckland) were allowed their appeal against Comrades, who were ordered to lose the match on account of playing: 12 men in a Junior competition. In regard to the dispute between the Auckland and Canterbury Associations regarding the Football Association trophy in which both associations claimed the trophy on goal averages, each team having won two games and lost one, it was decided to send the whole of the facts to the English Football Association asking for its decision in the matter. Mr. F. Campbell s proposal that the English Football Association be asked to decide the matter on goal averages only was negatived.