FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9181, 2 September 1908, Page 6

FOOTBALL.

THE ASSOCIATION GAME. BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION, WELLINGTON, September 1. A sub-committeee reported to a meeting tu-night of the Council of the New Zealand Football Association that they had gone into the proposal to invite a South African team to New Zealand in 1909, and recommended that such invitation be sent. The cost of the tour (£I,OOO to £1,100) should be covered by guarantets by the various Associations in the following amounts:—Auckland, Wellington and Otago, £250 each; Taranaki, £100; Wanganui, Hawke's Bay, Canterbury and Southland, £SO each; Wairarapa and South Canterbury, £25 each. The Committee further recommended that four guarantors be obtained for bank purposes to guarantee £250 each; that each centre provide boarding accommodation; that the Secretary write to the South African team tentatively inviting a team on the lines of the invitation to the New South Wales Associu.-on in 1903; that an endeavour be made to arrange matches on the return of the team in Australia, and that Australia be invited to contribute towards the expenses of the New Zealand Council. The report was referred to the conference of delegates to be held at Dunedin at the time of the Brown Shield Competition.