FOOTBALLERS TO TOUR

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 902, 20 February 1930, Page 6

FOOTBALLERS TO TOUR

SOCCER PLAYERS TO VISIT AUSTRALIA Press Association WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The request of the Australian Football Association that a New Zealand team should visit the Commonwealth this year, an Australian team to visit New Zealand in 1931, has been considered by the council of the New Zealand Football Association and it has been decided to comply with the request, on condition that the same terms apply to the visit of the Australian team next year. The team will leave some time in June. The tour will cover a period of } from six to eight weeks. The Australian authorities will take all the proceeds and pay all expenses, and retain any profit, but the same conditions will apply the following year, when the Australian team comes to New Zealand. The team will comprise 14 players and a manager, but no steps have yet been taken toward appointing a manager or sole selector. The New Zealand team will receive an allowance of 5s a day, and the Australian Association is to pay £SO toward the cost of assembly and dispersal in New Zealand, anything in excess of that sum to be borne by New Zealand. The Dominion body has to provide the New Zealand team with its equipment, which will amount to about £7O. The chairman of the New Zealand Council, Mr. F. Campbell, stated today that it was hoped to send away a good team. Mr. Campbell said he was pleased to be able to announce that the council was now free from debt, and had a small credit balance, while two of the major associations were still indebted to tfie council. Regarding the projected visit of a New Zealand primary schools team to Australia, the position was very indefinite just now, for want of information from Mr. R. Harrison, of South Auckland, in whose hands the negotiations were left at the end of last season.