FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4480, 26 July 1893, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

The Mowing explanation has been g.ven by '-Halfback "in the Pahiatun Herald, relative to the alleged eagagement of the Masterton school-bojß to play the Bush reps, to which I-referred last week;-."The> following letter to the editor of theHerald has been handed tomeoi' Sir: Your correspondent, >' Halfback ," should be a little more' careful of his facts. No match*hlf been arranged or even proposed between the Pahiakft and Eketahuna schools on the one hand and the ■ Masterton Bohool on ihe other,' Evidently somebody has been hoaxed' -I am, etc., W. H. Jackson, headmaster, Masterton School.". I n reference to .this matter T say that a letter was received by; tho Fahiatua boys from "one of the scholars at, the, Eketahuna -schoolstating that a match had .been- ar ranged with the Masterton boys, and asking, tbem.to send down a certain number of player*. This was done, with the result before staled It is quite possible that the : taking advantage of the fact thai : it was holiday.time, dispensed' with the trammels.. of loomtituted authority and arranged the nia,teh themselves : I do_riot for' a moment imagine that' • MrJaokßonwasoonhected'yvith the affair.; He takes too keen'an interest

holars to allow such, an ooourre a the one of which I complain. But . beyond the faofca stated noiiber the Pahialua boys nor I know anything further."