SOCCER FOOTBALL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 928, 22 March 1930, Page 16

SOCCER FOOTBALL

MINOR DIVISION AFFAIRS ANNUAL REPORT In its annual report the Minor Division Committee of the Auckland Football Association, which was formerly the Junior Management Committee. records that lost season wa« the most successful in the history of the code, and this year promises to break even that record. The committee controls tlic game in all its junior grades from the third intermediate downward, and also a l . l the primary and secondary schools Last year there were 96 teams, with some 1.500 players under the committee, and 781 competition matches were plaved. A notable event was the inauguration of the first interprovincial secondary schools’ championship when Auckland defeated YVellingtV, and became the first holders of th~ Skerrett Cup. The primary schools’ championship tourney was won by YVellington. The big event of the coming season will be the tour of Australia by a representative team of New Zealand schoolboys, and Mr. K. P. Harrison, headmaster of Belmont School, will be selector and manager. A very exhaustive questionnaire has been circulated by the New' Zealand Council in quest of information and opinions as to the best means of fostering the code in the schools of the Dominion-, and thus important work will be attended to more sedulously in future. The committee trusts the senior clubs will assist 4>y “fathering” those junior and school teams with no senior teams, and also encourage recruiting from the many promising players nowleaving the secondary schools, but often being lost to the game. The committee acknowledges the generous and enthusiastic assistance received' from many quarters, and confidently appeals for continued support in the strenuous season ahead.