FOOTBALL
■NEWS AND NOTES. It is stated that Eltham, in .the Northern Division, and Patea, in the Southern Division, will have difficulty in raising senior teams this season. If this is so there will be only four senior teams in the Northern Division, and three rounds will probably be played. Saturday football should be very interesting this season. United, who were weak last season, have dropped out, but Fitzroy, which contains some smart active natives and half-castes, are entering a team. Ok'ato, Rovers and Stars will again complete the quartette. We hivvu to thank the secretary of the Rovers Football Club for a coruplinuntary season ticket. Disappointment is felt in New Zealand Rugby Union circles at the action of the English Rugby Union in inviting the South African Union to forward a team to England in preference to the New Zealand Union, whose turn it undoubtedly was to have betn invited. Exchanges tell of the efforts of Messrs. C. Wray iPalliser and George Hartnell to have the claims of the All Blacks recognised. The Scottish Union, backed hj) Ireland, however, stuck out for the Springboks, and in the end they had their wav.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 243, 13 April 1912, Page 7
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193FOOTBALL Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 243, 13 April 1912, Page 7
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