AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 550, 3 July 1909, Page 14

AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

AND THE NEW COUNCIL. CONCBBNINQ .THE-:BALANCE-SHKET. ! .Aitneeting'ipf the.Council of the New Zealand','Amiteur''Aih'letip _ Association was held last nightV Mr.- J. W. IJatis presiding. There were also present: Messrs. C.'E; v ßridgo, W. tf. PoUock, iA-i Marryatt, ,W> F.'.Larkin, S. Robinson, Jp F. : Thompson, E. L. jChaffey, and Ai Davies.; ,',• ■-■'['• i'" '>'■■■:. An application for reinstatement-, as an amateur • was received :from Cecil H. ! Mason. It was decided to inform the applicant that ho. must stand down for twelve .months unless .an amateur club is v formed.-> in , nia die■irK&?:!.'.'-">'. ("h- ,';.'.■■:■■,■;■'-;■•' ■;.■■:>' , . '■■ .CvQ'i Evans,"l)unedin, applied for Temstatement. ; It was to treat the case as a special one, and to refer it to the Reinstatement Committee, to draw np reasons, to be submitted td why the application should bo granted W. H. Mackfty was reoommended as a reservo' for Zealandi team which is to visit Brisbane. The team as selected and already'^"published was; approved, and votes of thanke were passed to the gelectora. The enb-committee set up to go into the balance-sheet which came to hand from w» late council in Christcharch reported,-inter alk as under:—Your committee reports having inspected the property and effects for-. ■wakeTae stated in the letter of advice, and as Btated in 'the balance-sheet, and tods the same to be correct/ but deprecates items of expenditure, snch as travelfuig.expenfios and honorarium .voted to one of the officials in conjunction with the expenditure shown for clerical work/ Your committee recommends that a recerpt'be grven to Messrs. Grierson for tbe-effecta,, ete , .but tbaVthey be advised .that. the council - (as trustee, foi the'association) .cannot • nght to take such, action as mar be decided upon by ; the affiliated centres, iour.conunittee », i however, of opinion; in all.,the, cmserved, by'.'fnrther pursuing the matter. ' MrV STkin.saM that, ffie/point; committee was that, there wL perhaps from £10-to £20 in the balaßO^ than this be needed, to bo spent to recover it. The committee, he tWht/woald have to/be allowed,to teko a'nv action they might think best. , ... Mr Davies that the. amount the balance-sheet showed in honorariums was exfrwdinarv After four mo-nthV service,one *" y Voted'£lo, and a little later he ; we 6 .voted another,£lo to .pn f a ,teur of Hawke's Bay'te court sympathy for the old council. After another spefb the council had voted him another £10, all in aewmonte, Thiswas simply, frittering-away, the.funds of the council, and was not m the interests of the'Sγ 'He thought-that the. council shoulfprotest against *****". «*"*& 'that'thS various centres should discuss,it. I Mr. Robinson': "What do, you pappose to do? The council is pretty ithat somebhiiig, should be done., I, would like to know'.if Mr. Davies has aay definite' plan of campaign to put forward.' ■ , ; ; -j '~ :"& Wies suVsted that the. official m ■question' should, be asked: to >reiund^£ip. Mr' Pollock did' not thmk that, there was anyohance of getting the money by any light '- I M^ S Manyat* that the sooner the ? oouncil,'ooukl get clearof. the association in' Christchurch the better for'the sport, tie did not :think that. there was. any chance of .Getting the-money'.back.. What, they did 'want' were, the funds, of tho' : council ..and the '■books'; ' If.' the 'report was adopted' it'- would plrfce"Vt|he"'council' in ; the ;best : ;possible;.p6sa"lMr. Thompson"thought;that,J.the council was in tihe position of having to make the 'besif'of >tt-"bad job: / He! boped 'the: centres would view the matter th« same as -the council -"•" ! ''-'- ''■'■' : -'-' : ''' : -V''- , .- , 'i ''~ ' ~:'■ '■' ' ■.- ; Mr. Larkin thought that the present council was not concerned inthe doings of : -the old councH. He did not think that the 'agony should jbe prolonged.-;;';-..- .■':,;; ~ o a' . - ■:The report was adopted. >'. ■"/-.