Birmingham Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 66, 20 November 1890, Page 2

Birmingham Notes

I OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT] Two meetings were held at Birmingham on Saturday evening. A special meeting of the Athletic Association to discuss the amalgamation question was the first. Three delegates were appointed to meet the Cheltenham Sports committee at a conference to be held in the Kiwi tea Hall. Messrs Burns, Bryce and Munro were duly appointed. A meeting of the Racing Club was then held. The committee appointed at a previous meeting to examine the proposed course, reported that a good course could bo got. The report was adopted and a committee appointed to lay off the course. On Monday evening the delegates appointed by the Kiwitea • Birmingham Athletic Association and the Cheltenham Sports Committee met in the hall, Kiwitea, to discuss the question of amalgamation. Atter some preliminary explanation, Mr Templar moved, and Mr James Barrow seconded, That the Cheltenham Committee amalgamate with the Kiwitea Birmingham Athletic Association , provided their next sports be held on the holiday given for anniversary day. This was carried, one gentleman alone voting against it. Some discussion then took place anent the formation of a joint committee, and whether the sports should be strictly local " to keep the money in the district* or an open meeting should be held. The Kiwitea - Birmingham delegates were asked to leave the room for a few minutes while the Cheltenham Committee further discussed the .effects of incorporation. It was evident, although not expressed, that some members of the Cheltenham Committee, had some arguments to bring forward which they would be ashamed to let the Birmingham party hear. Howev«r, after about rive minutes absence the three gentlemen who had been asked to lefcv© the room were told they might eouae in again. The chairman then informed them that the Cheltenham Committee would not amalgamate with the other on any conditions. A vote of th&nks to the chair dosed the proceedings, The representative of the Athletic Association loft, feeling that they had met with •tsant courtesy at the meeting. It is to be regretted that the two ends of the district will not combino in a matter of this kind, but they will not, >md the reason is not difficult to find. Mr T. Bryce was the first to move in the direction of amalgamation of the two sporting committees, and somehow he seems to be the cause of their not agreeing. Many people in the upper blocks are oertam that Mr Bryce is working .■solely in the interests of Kiwitea, he lives in Kiwitea ; and as many Kiwitoa people are equally sure that everything Mr Bryce does is for the benefit of Birmingham, he haying done more for Birmingham than for any township in the old Kiwitea dietnet. So T. A. B. will have to be the Jonah, and then there might be peace. The aheep- farmers harvest it now on* and they will be busy for a while. It is to be hoped that we get better weather during the next two months than we have experienced during the last two. I expect to &cc a large number of the settlers at Mr Arkwright's meeting on Saturday night next. The contractors, Mepsrs Young and Eastberry, have commenced the additions to Mr Lowes Birmingham Hotel, The appearance of the place will be quite altered when the building is completed.