WRESTLING ASSOCIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1932, Page 6

WRESTLING ASSOCIATION

ANNUAL MEETING. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) | WELLINGTON, February 23. A suggestoin by Bain, Billy Meeske’s manager, that various Associations ! should contribute towrads a belt for i Meeske as an emblem of winning the [ world’s light heavyweight wrestling I championship from Alley last year, did not find favour, at the annual meeting of the New Zealand AVrestling Union, which decided to reply that the union did not officially recognise the transfer of either title or belt. The matter was arranged between the two men themselves and the Union doubted its right to recognise either man as champion. In moving the adoption of the annual report, Air H. D. Bennett said the executive had been in communication with Hamlin and Tliye on the Pacific Coast of America and Bowser on the East Coast and the arrangements provided that wrestlers sent by these promoters should be of good character, and also that the promoters should see the men had the return fare back to their own country. It was decided that an application from Napier for affiliation as an Association should be declined, on the grounds that Hawkes Bay Association wos willing to combine and admit four Napier men on the executive.