SO INDIGNANT

NZ Truth, Issue 1205, 3 January 1929, Page 12

SO INDIGNANT

Athletic Council Criticized

• "■ ■ ■ (From "N.Z. Truth's" Dunedin Rep.) The indignation so acutely felt m Otago athletic circles over the ' allocation of Dominion championships is not to end m hot-air within the centre's meeting rooms. A PROTEST is to be lodged to the N.Z. Council, and there seems to It was pungently .suggested by the be pretty good reason behind it. president. E. L,. Macassey, that the N.Z.A.A.A. Council cannot 'see past its own locality and the district which provides easy range for Wellington athletes. It is contended that the allocation of the 50-mile road cycling championship to Otago was nothing but a "sop," m view of the North Island having been endowed with five of the most important meetings m succession. It is hard to reason out the action of the present council m settling the 1929---30 track and field championships to Wanganui. This seems to be encroaching the privileges of next year's council, and any suggestion that; such' forward arrangement gives the respective centre plenty of time for preparations, is all bunkum! „'''.'.