N.Z. LAWN TENNIS
MEETING OF ASSOCIATION. The thirty-ffrst annual meeting of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association was held last evening, Mr. 51. E. Denniston being in the chair, in the unavoidablo absence of Mr. E. M. Gore, the president. The annual report and balance-sheet (already published) wero read and adopted.
The election of officers for the year resulted as follows:—Patron, His Excellencv the Governor-General (Lord Liverpool); president, Mr. H. M. Gore (Woliincton); vice-presidents, Mr. I , '. J. Olilson (Auckland), Mr. Geor«e L. Berry (Canterbury), Mr. George Ebbett (Hawke's Buy), Dr. .T. F. Bennett (Marlborough), Mr. M. B. B. Couston (Otago), Mr. E. C. Tenneit Southland), Dr. H. B. leatliam (Ta-ranaki). Mr. G. H. Pownall (Wanganui), Dr. Teickelinan (West Coast); vice-president L.T.A. of Australasia, Mr. H. M. Gore; delegate to the L.T.A., Mr. A. E. Beamish (London); delegates to Hie L.T.A. of Australasia, Messrs. V, H. Baxter, H. S. Fox, Ross Gore, and C. T. Metcalfe; committee of management, Messrs. H. M. Gore (cluurmnn), M. T. Denniston, A. G. Henderson, D. Murray Kean, M. F. Instone. G. ¥. Smythe, and R. N. IC. Swanston; lion, auditor, Mr, C, B Easton; secretary and treasurer, Mr. Arthur .T. Petherick.
An informal discussion took place with respect'to reducing the expenses of Hie association. The chairman said that the expenses had been cut down to the minimuin, and it was difficult to see how further reductions could be made. The recommendation of the Management Committee' that in future levies on affiliated associations no v demands be made, during the remainder of the war poriod, and that, the unpaid isubscriplions duo by affiliated associations be recovered unless any association whoso subscription is unpaid can show good cause to the council or to the Jlamigemcnt Committee that sucli amount should bo written off, was adopted. It was resolved that it be a suggestion to the Management Committee lo aid provincial associations in every possible way to oncourago school tennis by giving financial assistance, provided the local association applies lo the New Zealand Association for a grant with some definite plan set out. A vote of condolence was passed with the relatives of members of the Tennis Association who have made the supreme sacrifice during the war.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 32, 1 November 1917, Page 3
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