PUBLIC OPINION ATHLETIC DISPUTE

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12608, 19 November 1926, Page 6

PUBLIC OPINION

ATHLETIC DISPUTE

(To the Editor, “N.Z. Times.”) Sir.—ln connection with my difference with the president of the Now ZWaland Amateur Athletic Association, may I encropch on your forbearance to point out that your necessarily condensed report of the special meeting of the council of that body held on Monday last, did nor clearly bring opt the special point on which the West Coast (N. 1.) centre, which I had the privilege to represent, based its protest against the resolution oi suspension. Immediately following my remark that the council was acting in the matter of tours by qverseas athletics “like an enterprising showman,” the president rulfsL -ftf .tepqrted by tbe Press, as ioltffis »’ "I am not going to tplerate that kind of thing. You will either withdraw your remarks, Mr Wilton, or take no further part in the meetiqjs-” That hasty and ill-considered ruling appeared to me to be so extreme in comparison with my alleged offence, that I lodged a protest, which was overruled. • " «>»’ I thereupon exercised the option Which was given-.to roe and took no further part in t}>e meeting. I now maintain that no amount of special pleading’or raising of irrelevant issues 'can ’justify my suspension for allegedly failing to obey the ruling of the chair. The decision of the meeting is, in my opinjqn, so opposed to the accepted standards pf justice sod fair play, that 1 have informed my centre that in o° circumstances will l renew my connection witji the council unless and until tlje motiop of suspension is *»rpunged from its records.—l am, etc. FRANK WILTON.