AT SECOND HAND

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 56, 30 November 1926, Page 10

AT SECOND HAND

DOINGS OF CRICKET COUNCIL WELLINGTON ASSOCIATION OBJECTS “That the New Zealand Cricket Council be requested to forward copies. of the minutes of all meetings held by that body to affiliated associations within one week of the holding of such meetings” is the text of a motion which was carried at last night’s meeting of the Wellington Cricket Association, as the result of some outspoken comment by Mr. H. J. Buck. The matter referred to by Mr.‘Buck was a minor representative game which it was proposed by the Council of the New Zealand Association should lie played at Wellington between representatives of Wellington and of several combined minor associations. The dates for this proposed match were December 21 and 22. Mr. Buck pointed out that according to statements appearing in the Press, visiting players were to be asked to pay their own travelling expenses. According to the first letter written by the secretary of the council to the association, however, the whole expenses of the match were to be paid by the New Zealand Association, which- was to take all risks. Thus a letter had been written to the council, asking for a copy of tlie actual resolution passed when it was first discussing the matter. No reply had been received to this request, however.

The secretary (Mr. A. Varney) pointed out that the council had not been able to have a meeting since the letter had been sent, and had not been able to discuss the matter.

In Mr. Buck’s opinion, however, the matter was not one which required a meeting. The question asked had been a perfectly simple one, and could have been answered without any trouble. “There seems to me to be something wrong,” he said, “if we cannot get that information ourselves at first hand. It is a simple question, and there is a twenty-four hours’ mail. I think myself that we are entitled to an answer. We should be able to get into touch with the doings of the council. It is not satisfactory to have this information through the Press, and not at first hand.”

Mr. Buck referred also to the proposed South Australian visit, pointing out that, it was necessary for the Wellington association to know details, in order that arrangements might be made in reference to fixtures. “I think we might very easily be taken into the confidence of the council in matters like this,” he said, “and be troubled a little bit more about them. The associations seem to be the last people' to get to know anything which is of the utmost importance to themselves.”

Some discussion took place on the matters raised by Mr. Buck, with the result that the above motion was unanimously carried.