ATHLETICS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19164, 22 November 1927, Page 15

ATHLETICS.

NEW ZEALAND COUNCIL. (PB*B3 ASSOCIATION TZLIOBAIT.) WELLINGTON, November 21. The annual meeting of the Council of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association was held to-night. Mr R. W. McVilly congratulated the meeting on the fact that assets exceeded liabilities by £383 12s 3d. Speaking on the R. A. Rose trust fund. Mr McVilly said that on September 30th, 1927, there was a balance of £1056.15s Id, and that the bulk of that amount had been placed with the Public Trustee on deposit for five years at 5J per cent, per annum, the interest rate being reducible to 5 per cent, per annum in the event of the investment being broken before the due date, an exceedingly satisfactory arrangement. The following resolution was passed: "That the standards for the BSO yards cycle (banked track), one mile cycle (grass and banked tracks), and three miles cycle (grass and banked tracks) be altered from 60sec, 2min 30soe, 2min 15scc. Bmin. and 7min respectively, to 59sec. 2min lasec, 2min 2sec, 7min SOsec, and 6min 40sec respectively."

Messrs R. "W. McVilly and L. A. Tracy were appointed to represent the Association on the Athletic Board of Control. The 1928-29 track and field championships v:ere allotted to the Wellington Centre, and the New Zealand cross-country championships to the Wan.canui-T.iranaki Centre. The following officers were elected: —Patron, his Excellency Sir Charles Fcrgnssoi); president, Mr R. W. McVilly; vice-president?, Messrs G. H. Lusk and H. I. Austad: delegates to Olympic Council. Messrs G. H. Lusk and A. W. O. Travers; hon auditor, Mr RW. Sballcrass; hoa. secretary and treasurer, Mr L. A. Tracy; administration committee. Messrs R. W. McVilly, H. W. Franklin, and L. A. Tracy: finance committee, Messrs R. W. McVilly, H! W. Franklin, and R. Connop; reinstatement committee. Messrs V. Hugo, E. G. Gnj% and H. O. Austad: overseas representatives. England. Mr A. E. Porritt: South Africa. Mr Ira G. Emery; U.S.A., Mr C. G, Krognesa,