ATHLETICS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 138, 13 June 1922, Page 7

ATHLETICS.

. AMATEUR ASSOCIATION. (By Telegraph. —Press Assoeiatlon.) I WELLINGTON, Monday. I A meeting of the council of the New (Zealand Amateur Athletic Association was ; held to-night. The ehalriuan. Mr. A. T. I'Davies, said the final balance sheet in connection with the visit of the .Springbok athletic team had been received. The • • duance committee would meet this week : Ito complete a balance sheet for the Amateur i Athletic Union of Australia and New SJea- '■ ! land, and forward it to headquarters in ' j Australia, together with the prolits for the ■ ! tour, approximately X-100. It was decided to support the association's protest against the amusement tax ' lon the subscriptions of members of amateur ; ' sports bodies, the opinion being expressed that it was quite uujustiiflable, and would discourage amateur sports. A conference of sports bodies was suggested. The cross- ' country championship meeting was allotted ' to Otago. the date being left to tbe Otago centre. The locale of the annual championship meeting can only be decided at rhe * '■ annual conference of the association, but li lis understood to he Otago's turn to have '• itlic auuual meeting. I Advice was received irom the Amateur , Athletic; I'nion that the executive had ' ! passed the following performances In New I Zealand as the best record for Australasia: ' 11. E. Wilson, 120 yds hurdles at Wanganui, < 115 1-Ss; J. K. Oosterlaak (Springbok), __oyds < • flat at Wellington, around a curve, 21 -l-os, ' ' equal to the existing record by Nigel I I Barker. Various applications for reinstate- i ment were received aud considered. It was - resolved to ask the opinion of tbe Amateur : I Athletic Union on the advisability of i ' inviting a team of athletes to visit Aus- i ] tralia and New Zealand during the ensuing 1 season. ' — 1