AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 716, 15 January 1910, Page 7

AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

/,:, ■■■ }! ' :i: ~ : ~\l$' , , A: meeting of:the' Wellington. Centre, of, the: New &alaiid Amateur .Athletic Asso-. ciation was held' last .'evening; Mr,; W, Cotfey presiding.. . :'::;(,':-,:,; ''v-y.-- '; ..The :,tow ; n: clerk wrote granting permission tothocentre'tb'hold the Wellington: 'provincial championship riieeting.on the. Basin lleserve on;; January ,29. - , '■' , -:,,-, .; The.Port Nichbls'bivClub:-wrote' approve ing the, principle Pf'a juvenile association: being ; fornied, ,: and stating'ythat" it- con-; siders''■:steps should',bo taken;,'to;'form such;-''an';, association;". -The;'club .-istated; that : it.was willing, to put a rabe fbrohil:'dreripri the.programmo for .its next after:, ribon nieetirig; ', : ' /"' .: "■"' -'il-::,:-' : " [ - ■'■'! ■ Itivasdebidcdyto set,aside, Jariuary,26; asythe 'date for .an : evening.sports meet-, ing.urider the auspices of tho PortNiohbl-' son Club. The programme, will be as fol-lbws:--100 'Yards Handicap, ".iifly Yards ,Handicap,', Two Miles Handicap,. audßigh" Jump Haidibap. .'y.y.'.y :,';,' .;-./;. '■'-, Periiissiori was" granted, tb .the .Wellingtou;Club>to hold ari evening: meeting- on Februftry,-,16. / ;::-,;.,:"/•::. yy,.;/:.V /•' :, The :secfetary remarked, that' a rumour had got abroad-.that competitors sent from ■the centre to '. the New.:Zealand'champiPnship.meeting 'would;have to pay their own exmiilses to: Auckland.'.: He could not say how :the, report .had'.originated,; but; as. far;.as he.knew,' and as far as the'eentre was concerned;., there was : : nb > intention in the above directiori.;'lf tho centre sent a team, ititould'pay,its expenses if funds, would'rillow ;it.:'-.; , ";, \:-i 7 ;

: The Civil" Service. Club .was, granted: per 7 missib'n.to Ihbld an 'afternoon meeting, on February'. 19,'; on condition that /satisfactory larrarigements are made betw;een : the centre's isub-committee 'and the ''-Cricket Association.,': The".-' Wellington ; Club .was granteda date , for "similar conditions' to" the. above.::;/;/,:.,/.'/y/y.'