HOCKEY HEADQUARTERS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2136, 30 April 1914, Page 8

HOCKEY HEADQUARTERS

MOTION TO SHIFT HERE. / THE PROPOSAL DEFEATED. SBy 'Mcgfapb.— l'rese Association.) • Q-hrtstchareli, April 20. At the annual moetinu "of-'delegates to the NowKcalaud.l-lociri'i' Association this evening, the question of removing the Itcadfjuarturs ol tho association from Christchurch to Wellington was very fully discussed. I'herc iiad beoti nmiours of great dissatisfaction in other parta of tlto'Dominion with the management's finding at the meeting, and there waa a large attendance of , delegatos.

The president (Mr, E. Nordon) said Unit the papers, -especially the North Island papers, had beeji full of condemnation of' the act-ions of the management committee in connectiun with the proposed British team's tarn , , and lie undur,:tood t3iat riertailii tMdgatoa liad hwn instructed to vote in a certain way. He proposed to move a motion to o|>cn the, matter for discussion, a-s lie had resigned his position as president. He was no Jonger a delegate .for JLinawatw, but, as chairman of tho executive, he ought to be able to awsWor any questions as to the iuaniige.n»nt- of the association's affairs. His motion wus: "That- the meeting, having hc-afu the president's explanation in reference to the negotiations for an English team, expresses its confidence in the retiring committee." As president, he did not want to retire from office with the stigma- that, in tlio words of some of the North Island associations, Jto had been a party to bungling the negotiations for tho British tour. Mr. Norden then gave particulars regarding t,he negotiations. In reply Iβ a. question as io the- final letter from tlio English Association, Mi , , Nordon said that one had not been lecoived. He further oxplainccl that Mr. Elliott- Davis liafl negotiated with tho English Association when in Loudon, but when he returned tlio New Zealand Association had coimnunicittorf direct. They had kept the Auckland Association posted in tho matter. Mr. MacDonwall (Howke's Bay) said that the cable address supplied was the cause of tho vrholo trouble. They had been using Mr, Davis's father's address, and did iwt- know till that- morning ■when Mr. Kiliott Davis had explained tho position. Tho chairman ?aid that tho negotiations iiad not been dropped, as suc-aest-ftd, but had been left in abeyance. The Now Zealand executive land piwl £5 cxoeiises for the Auckland delegate tn .come to Christ-clmrchi ami flisonxs tlio matter. That did not look liko trying to bungle affairs. Mr. NorrUm also said that members of the com* niit-tee had personallr jruariintt'cd £100, arid they regretted tliat they wc-rfii,ni-aWc to a;ußrantcp the whole amount. Mr. J. M. Stewart seconded the motion. Mr. MacDougall tnovoi): "That, in tlio oninion of "this meetins, it is desirable htat the headquarters be moved to Wellington." The motion was lost by 16 votes tu 3.