Although Association Football is not permitted in many of the leading Secondary Schools in New Zealand, the Secondary Schools' team selected to represent New Zealand in Australia proved too strong for all the teams met over the other side of the Tasman Sea. The success of this team of youngsters must be heartening to the administrators of the Soccer code in New Zealand. Australia has had a higher standard of senior play than New Zealand for some seasons, but the standard of junior play obviously does not reach that of New Zealand's and when these lads grow up and take their place in senior teams New Zealand should not have any difficulty in defeating Australia in senior play. Prominent among the New Zealand team was D. Yeoman, of Wellington, who scored most of the goals. Yeoman set a record by representing Wellington in senior provincial football at the age of 15 years, and is a player of marked ability.

There is a mistaken idea held by many in New Zealand that Soccer is a game played in New Zealand by recent arrivals from Great Britain, but a survey of the players this season will show that more than 75 per cent. are New Zealanders, born and bred.