AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1541, 10 September 1912, Page 9

AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

NEW ZEALAND COUNCIL MEETS. A meeting of the council of the New Zoa and Amateur .■Uhlotlc Association was held last night. Mr. A. Marryatt presided, and there were also present Messrs B. Guise, J. Cusack, C. E. Bridge A.' Chaffey, W. Larkin, Thompson, Clinch' ■ and Daviej. ' Letters were received from Messrs Pollock and Dunn, the council's representatives at a meeting held at Blenheim on September 1. It wa« reported that :>t the meeting a club had been! formed, to wiil? Wl st. a ? t' ho Mariborough Amateur Athletic Club. The Olympic Council of New Zealand forwarded tho following .resolution, which had bwn carried at n meetiiis held last month :— "That with a view to establishing a permanent New Zealand Olympic fund, this council communicate with the governing bodies of all sports intornsted. recommending a nominal onnual subscription of (say) 6d. per club .member, and suggests that, such mini could be collected as a. registration fee or,otherwise as may be deemtd desirable." It was decided to send copies on to tho centres for consideration find enrlj- reply. The meeting, had before it .1. M'Holm's record throw of 135 ft. SJiu for 161b. rammer (7ft. circle), made at Cliristehureh on February 21 la«!.—lt wns decided to pass it on to the Australasian Council as <in A tif.tnilasian record. ' ; . The council passed as a New Zealand record A. W. Dormer's performanoo of Imin, 58 l-sse<\ for fSOyds., run at Auckland on March 2 last. Mr. If. Coombes. of Sydney, wrote informing the council that the visit of flirt Cimarlian .athktes was deferred for the timo being, but sfafing that fhorfl- v.;is the probability of n t?am from the Pacific Oo:ist visiting Australia and New Zealand.—lt was decided to inform the Australian Council that the Neu- Zealand Council was in favour of a visit of, say, five men. It was also decided to inform the centres. Messrs. Mnrryatt, Guise and the secretary were appointed a committee to consider ways and means. In connection with the Olympic Gjimes it was resolved "That this council is strictly opposed to separate representation for New Zealand."—A cony of this resolution is to bo forwarded to the Olympic Council for New Zealand. The nnnunl meeting wus fixed for Monday, November 25.