Association Football.

The decision of the New Zealand Association Football authorities to send a New Zealand Secondary Schools' representative team on a short tour of Australia is to be commended. With the sport gradually gaining an entry into most of New Zealand's colleges, the authorities are paving the way to the firm establishment of the round ball code in the Dominion. For many years Soccer existed only because of the regular influx of people from the Old Land, but with the abolition of the Immigration policy this supply dwindled and Soccer felt the pinch. But, the sport has continued to progress despite this handicap and, to-day, there are several thousand players who were born and bred in the Dominion. Until the sport finds a place in the Secondary Schools, however, it cannot be said to be on a sound basis. From these schools come most of our good athletes for track and field, and with a gap from the Primary Schools to the search for employment after leaving Secondary Schools there is a tendency for the young fellow to forget all about Soccer. This gap is gradually being closed—and all for the good of the world's most universal field game.