CHAMPIONSHIP ATHLETIC MEETING.

Grey River Argus, 20 April 1911, Page 3

CHAMPIONSHIP ATHLETIC MEETING.

v .u> j. cU-'yrapii— i.-'er Jficaa rtaiwtui»uiij jJOINiJEiJUxiN, Api-'ii -l^me venue clispuie m twinccuuu wita me Australasian Amateur aiuituc Cnampionship meeting is occas lomng" considerable attention locally. Mr Marryat, of Wellington, Pre sident of the Council, who is spending Easter in Dunedin, was interr viewed by a "Star" reporter to-day. He says: "Mr Pollock and myself feel that we have been unjustly used in the intemperate language employed in criticising but action. Our long connecton with the sport, both in Otago and Wellington should sure ly have caused those who differed trom us at least to give us credit for laavmg acted honestly in accordance with our convictionsl We have prefer red to take up an attitude which we know would entail the loss of our "seats on the Council, and which, in my own case, involves giving up the onice of President, a position 1 treasure very highly. We have preferred co act up to our convictiqns as to what is best for the sport rather than ■retain our seats on the Council by voting against our convictions, and we claim that our action entitles us io respect instead of oDloquy. It has been seated that this case is on all fours with the dispute over the old Council in Christchurch. We do not wish to reopen that matter, •but merely point out this difference. Mr Vollook and myselt preferred to taKe an action involving our disappearance from the legislation on the sport rather than vote against our convictions,' whereas in the case of cue old Council at Christchurch the reverse was the case, ' members renaming their seats in defiance of an expression of no confidence from the majority of the centres." in connection with the resolution of the Otago centre revoking our appointment we are of opinion that that resolution is ultra vires, "but we intend to make no use of that po.sition, and if the Otago centre will act in a constitutional way they' will find that Mr Pollock and myself will act in the way they expect of us. One of the speakers at the Otago Centre's meeting said that we had no right to judge between right and wrong, that we went in" the- Council simply to vote as they instructed us. Now, I ask these .gentlemen if they wouid, under any consideration accept an honorary position on sports or any other body whereby he was precluded from exercising his judgment as "between right and! wrong. Even mis-statements have t>een made to incite opposition to the action of the Council in selecting Wellington. It has been alleged that some months ago the Council wrote to the associations in Australia asking fhem to give an indication as .to the date on which they would, like the the meeting to be held, and that in that letter the Council stated that the meeting would probably be held in Wellington. No : such statement was ever , made by any member of the Council or by any of the Council's officials. "Furthermore it has been stated that the Otago delegates to the conference of centres in Christchurch met me and obtained my promise that Otago would receive fair play. These gentlemen met me in Christchurch, and tried their utmost to get me to give my opinion on the locality of the championship meeting. I told them! that as President of the Council I could not in all fairness give any such indication, and that in any. case no member of the Council would be justified irL expressing 5 his opinion until he had heard the evidence. I certainly promised that Otago would receive full consideration and fair play. .. I claim 'that Otago has had those."

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