CONTROL OF CYCLING

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 16 June 1933, Page 9

CONTROL OF CYCLING

COUNCIL’S ULTIMATUM

DEMANDS ON FEDERATION

(By Telegrapti—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, June 16

A letter has been forwarded by the Cycling Council to the New Zealand Cycling federation, Christchurch, which the council desires to be accepted as a considered opinion and in the nature of an ultimatum. Failing the acceptance of the x>roposals that the letter contains rhe council will recommend amateur cycling bodies throughout New Zealand to persist in seeking separate recognition, and in the meantime to disregard the federation. The letter says, inter alia, with regard to the future: “Unless and until something is agreed to which, in the opinion of this council, would make the administration of amateur cycling satisfactory, it does not intend to cooperate with the federation. The council is of opinion that a serious mistake was made when the federation applied to New Zealand conditions apparently the rule in other and larger countries, that one body should control both professionals and amateurs. Amateur cyclists in New Zealand did not ask for it and did not want it. So far as is known the professional section also did not want it. Two years’ trial of the system has now been given and in the opinion of the council it has been found wanting.” The letter, however, suggests lines oil which retention of supreme control by the federation might be secured.