LAWN TENNIS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2262, 23 September 1914, Page 3

LAWN TENNIS.

THE WELLINGTON ASSOCIATION. The annual report of the Wellington Lawn Tennis Association states that the committee has continually had before it the important matter of'obtaining permanent grounds for the association, and has spent a good deal of time on the matter. After tho' Oifcy Council had agreed to lease the Pirie Strest Beserve to tho association, tho committee invoked the assistance of a special committee of gentlemen connected with lawn tennis to report to the Management Committee on ways and means. Tho special committee went into the matter . carefully and thoroughly, and in its report convinced tho association's committee that the terms of the draft lease submitted by the City Council made it impossible for the v association to accept. jt Vl eals have been submitted to the City Council, up to the present the efforts of the committee have not met with success. The association is.m a good position financially. The decrease "in the revenue was largely due, to the interclub matches having been dropped. Tho committee desires to place on record its best thanks te the lion, auditor (Mr. F. W. Bevin), to the association's president and vice-presidents, to - the vicepresident and delegates on the New Zealand Association's Council, te the Press for reports of matches and comj)oti_tions, to the hon. secretaries of affiliated • clubs, to the members of special committees, to the Wellington and Brougham Hill Clubs for the use of courts for the Easter tournament, and to Mr. H. M. Gore and John Jaquos and Son, Ltd., for donations, to the association. . >