CYCLING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 210, 17 June 1933, Page 2

CYCLING.

AMATEUR INTERESTS. ULTIMATUM TO FEDERATION. WELLINGTON, June 16. A letter has ibeen forwarded by the Cycling Council to the New Zealand Cycling Federation in Christehurch, which the council desires to be accepted as its considered opinion and in the nature of an ultimatum. Failing the acceptance of the proposals that the letter contains the council will recommend amateur cycling bodies throughout New Zealand to persist in seeking separate recognition and in the meantime to disregard the federation. The letter says, inter alia: "With regard to the future, unless and until something is agreed to which in the opinion of this council would make the administration of amateur cycling satisfactory, it does not intend to cooperate with the federation. The council is of the opinion that a serious mistake was made by the Union Cycliste Internationale when it applied to* New Zealand the conditions—apparently the rule in other and larger countries—that one body should control both professionals and amateurs. Amateur cyclists in New Zealand did not ask for it, and did not want it. So far as is known the professional section also did not Avant it. A two years' trial of the system has now been given and in the opinion of the council it has been found wanting." The letter suggests lines, however, on which the retention of supreme control by the federation might be secured.