AMATEUR ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 133, 7 June 1910, Page 6

AMATEUR ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.

MEETING OF OOUfSCIL. (By Telegraph.—rress Association.) ■WBLJMNGTON, Monday. The council of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association met tonight. The Australasian Union wrote agreeing to New Zealand's recommendation for the reinstatement of Gordon Richmond and EJrrol Mackersey as amateurs. The question of allocating the nest Australasian championship meeting (to be held in Dunedin) was hekl over for the new council to decide: Regarding the re-arrangement of boundaries, it was decided that Hawke's Bay and Taranalvi be left in the Wellington Centre, and that Nelson, Jlarlborough, and Westlaud go to Canterbury. It was decided to add a hop, step, and jump contest to the present New Zealand championship programme. The Australasian Union asked for the council's vote on the following questions: ■ (1) Whether the union had decided rightly in ruling that a member of the New South 'Wales Rugby League (Northern Union) who is also a member of the New South Wales ■Amateur Athletic Association, had not inI fringed his amateur status by his connectj tion with the league, it being stated that whilst playing football the applicant had received no remuneration? (2) Is there anything to prevent n 'State Association from becoming affiliated to an amalgamation or I federation of amateur bodies and obeying its I decision as to the professional statns of an athlete, provided in all cases that it is stricter in effect than the existing amateur definition of the union? There was considerable discussion on the question. The Association's votes are as follows- (1) "yes." (2) "No." , ..■ ■