FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4803, 18 August 1894, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

At tho request of tho secretary of the N.Z. Union the secretary of the Wairarapa Union has selected D'Arcy full-back, McGovern, threequarter, and Watson forward to represent Wairarapa in the practice iiiTiew of thoNorthlsland v N.S.W match.

Mr M. J, Hodgius, mauagor of tlio Wellington Junior Rep, team visiting Carterton to-day, forwarded the following letter to the secretary of tlio local Uuion on Thursday night: "Have just seen by a Wairarapa paper that a meeting of the committco of your Union is to be held to-morrow night at Grey town when an effort will be made to alter the place where the junior rep, match is to be played from Carterton to Masterton. In justice to our juniors I mentioned this at a meeting of our Committee lielil this evening at fivo o'clock, when tho committee instructed me to point out to the Wairarapa Union the unfairness of altering tho fixture at such a short notice. If the match is played at Carterton, the train would suit admirably. If at Masterton everything will bo bustlofrom tho time the members of our team who are unable to get away on' Friday night, get out of the train on Saturday until they get on again, All our arrangements have been made for Carterton, and to alter them at tho last moment for tho convenijnco of a few of the Wairarapa juniors is hardly fair for us, I am positive if tlio match is ordered to be played at Masterton, it cannot come off on the 18th, and to put it off at this stage of the arrangements until another Saturday would only jeopardise tho fixtures altogether,"