REMITS APPROVED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 756, 31 August 1929, Page 17

REMITS APPROVED

N.Z. ASSOCIATION’S CONFERENCE FURTHER PURSE LIMITS Press Association GREYMOUTH, Friday. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Boxing Association took place today, 25 delegates being present. The A. Beban, presided. Hr. 1\ F. McEvedy. chairman of the New Zealand Boxing Council, attended by invitation of the conference. The report and balance-sheet were adopted. The following remits were approved:— That, a local association shall not liqld any professional contest within a period i f 14 days immediately preceding the day on which championships begin or within a similar period immediately succeeding the day on which championships conclude. That * 'where any professional under engagement for a contest under any local association requests postponement of the contest to some later date to that named hi the articles, it shall be optional for such local association to hold him liable to pay any expenses claimed by his opponent consequent on such postponement not exceeding £1 a day for each day following the date on which the original agreement provided.” A Southland remit, “That purses for professional contests be limited to £l5O, including expenses,” was amended to read. •'That in the first contest by a professional the purse shall not exceed £2OO and expenses £4O and that the purse in subsequent contests be limited to £150.”

Remits from Southland and Taumaj*unui urging abolition of the amusement tax were referred to the New Zealand Council. It was resolved to hold the 1930 championships at Palmerston North. The question of granting a licence to Morgan as a professional was discussed. Hr. P. F. McEvedy explained the circumstances. On the motion of th« president the action of the New Zealand Council in granting a licence to Morgan was approved. The president of the Manawatu Association was elected president of the New Zealand Boxing Association for the ensuing year and Messrs. A. Beban (Greymouth) and J. E. Staples (Wellington) were elected vice-presidents. All members of the New Zealand Council and members of the appeal committee were re-elected.