CRICKET FUND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24418, 2 October 1940, Page 9

CRICKET FUND

OTAGO’S ENDOWMENT SCHEME ASSOCIATION STATES POSITION “The sooner this matter is thrashed out the better,” said the chairman of the Finance Committee of the Otago Cricket Association (Mr A. G. Valentine) when a meeting of the association last evening discussed briefly the future of the association’s Endowment Fund. It was reported by Mr W. A. Rowland that the o-range Club wished to have a special meeting of delegates so that the whole position could be examined. Effective discussion had been prevented at the annual meeting of the association by the ruling of the chairman (Mr F. N. Binney) that a notice of motion was necessary, and if the association itself were no prepared to reopen the matter, Mr Rowland said, the Grange Club was prepared to give notice of motion to have a special meeting convened. No doubt the application of the scheme this season would be considered by the Finance Committee, Mr Binney said, but the position was that the inauguration of the fund had been decided upon by a special meeting of delegates, and that any suggestion that it should be depended or moderated would have tc go before another special meeting. Members agreed that it was not incumbent .upon the as~ociation to take any action, and that if any club wished to have the subject reconsidered the means were available for it to do so. In the meantime, the position was that the scheme remained in operation according to the decision of the original special meeting of delegates.