FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3158, 8 April 1909, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

(£rom London lruth. ) (This anonymous effusion bearing the Edinburgh postmark, and referring to the paying of 33 p.T day to members of the New Zealand football team, reached me a day or two ago, and in view of the enormous financial interests at issue, I have decided to waive my usual rule about anonymous communications, and to publish it.—Ed. London "Truth.") Three shillings a day, for their sundry expenses? Great Sc6tt! Sic' a sum maist absurdly immense is, And amateurs, too. At least, sae the pretence is. Three shillings a day, for their stamps and their wires, too, And their cabs, if to vide thus a player desires to, And their tips—if Jeames Flunkey's gude will he aspires to Three shillings a day, when hotel bills had paid been, And allowance for railway fares also had made been; What iniquity here to our eyes has displayed been? Three shillings a day. Each New Zealander drew it, And—wud ye believe it?—those. Sassenachs knew it, And allowed them, wi'out any protest, to do it. Three shillings a day? Hech? It fair makes me rave, sir. And not bound to spend what thei bursar thus gave, sir. Butjjthat'fabulou i sum, if they liked, they micht save, sir. Three shillings a day. The base pros. I defy 'em. A. d the English R. U. who, conniving, st'-od by 'em. A saxperce micht pass? But THREE SHILLINGS PER DIEM.