FOOTBALL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 86, 7 May 1909, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

THE ASSOCIATION TiAME. VISIT OF SOI'TiTaKUICAIV IBAil. By Telegraph.~iPress Association. Wellington. East Xight. At a meeting 0 f tin, Council ( ,"f the N.-w Zi-aliiml Football Association toMight ,| letter , vas rm .j V( . ( , fl .„ |u th( , ;Nmtli Aliu-an Association aeceptiii" an invitation from Xew Zealand andaVt J't Australia during 1010 „„ the following conditions: The team to consist of '•> or Hi players, without a imtmig-cr, tins work to be carried out In- Hie captain till arrival in New Zealand, where tile duties would devolve on (he New Zealand Association: th t . pio.>rammc to embrace two or tliree matelies wocklv ■New Zealand to defray all travelling and Hotel expenses during the journey and slay in tile Dominion; X ,, w 5St-,ili»ii,l to take all receipts and prolits and lie under no further liability than speeilied; the team to be prepared for a snort programme in Australia on the return journey, if time permitted without unduly prolonging the tour, leaving all arrangements to Xew Zealand. The secretary stated that the receipts were estimated at mm), including t-l->0 from guarantees, tl.iil from Australia, and X27Z contributed liv the centres towards hotel-expenses. The expenditure was put down at .IMBOS. It was decided to write the Xew South Wales Association stating that the cost of taking the team to Australia would ho CSlI); that without the consent ol tlio New Zealand Association the team would not agree to play in Australia; that with such consent' it would playtwo matches in each centre, and that it was thought a fair proportion for Australia to pav would b,. c-270. It was suggested that New Sooth Wales should pay .-Cl2O. Wet Australia .COT, and South Australia at).