THE 60LFING YEAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 212, 8 September 1927, Page 10

THE 60LFING YEAR.

ASSOCIATIOiri REVIEW.

NEXT YEAR'S CHAMPIONSHIPS.

PROBABLY IN OTAGO.

(By Telegraph—Own Conecpoadeat.} HAMILTON, thia day. Thirty delegates attended the annual meeting of the New Zealand Golf Council at Hamilton but night. The annual report stated that the council waa grateful to Mr. A. D. S. Duncan, who, although the leader of the New Zealand team to Australia, made no daim for any personal expenses. The inauguration of the inter-State matches for the KirkWindeyer Cup and the decided victorv gained by the New Zealand team would be noted by all Dominion golfers with great satisfaction and pride. Daring the year just dosed IS dubs bad joined the association, and two had resigned, the membership at the dose of the year being 134, against 123 last year. Three more dubs had been elected since the dose of the year. The annual statement of accounts for the year ended July 31 showed the total revenue for the year was £992, the ordinary expenditure was £899. and the cost of the visit of the New Zealand team to Sydney for the Kirk-Windeyer Cup £208. There was thus an excess of expenditure over revenue of £116 7/4. The balance-sheet showed there remained a •urplus of assets amounting to £253.

Kirk-Wiadeyet Cop, In moving the adoption of the report, the chairman, Mr. W. E. A. Gill, of Wellington, said that the year had been most important in the annals of golf because through the inspiration and work of the late Mr. R, C Kirk and Mr. Windeyer, an annual competition between Australia snd New Zealand had become an established fact, snd the two countries wore bro-'«r'it c-v together. As s r«- !i ...' ,;

Zealand players had ■pw* on the Kirk-Wain* (£*• Golf bad progressed in K**r JS and to-day agfmted dak* w« r** membership of 14.151 Of thai w£ were member* of «2 North lakai^i? 1 aad **M were members of nT?*?' Island dab*. Darin* tie. tmt sa^S! 1 bad bad tba services of the eseaeli fisainaili. wbe bow oambcrai * **" Tba dacraaaa of tba IcSamS t_ from £370 to £2&3 tba reduction of Udiet* mSaS U from */ to 1/ per brad, of seadrajr aa official team ta anibSf £188. Bat expenditure bad hm! dared aad iacreaaed *" oaed tba future. Th» iuvestienliag tba work of tba maZ.!? Uoa of tba Golf AssoaatioaT rf T United States, aad weabl famM porta from time to time. complimented Mr. G. O. km secretary, on hit work. ~~* la aecoadiag tba adoptaoa of |W fc port. Dr. H. Donrlas, niihhat if £ Hamilton Onb, said golf ia New appeared to be in a healthy eoadnaaT Tbe report was adopted aad au Uaa members of tba council, aW aR A. GHI, J. B. MaeEwaa, aTSLJ H. R. R Balneavic, A. D S. C Captain A. E. Conway aad SkT» Robert* wen re-elected. F Bast Teara Liaks. Tba claims of Balmaeewaa far M yeart championships were advnamlw Mr. A. N. Haggitt. of Dmmam!]U moaey, be said, bad been span aa taZ links and tbe committee «mtwma«Z, coarse guaranteed its rbamniossma mm ditkm. Certainly it was taaaJmaabJ bad a tarn. Mr. Losk said the Nottk lanad mail aot object to tbe ehampuammm aZ to Balmaeewaa if those mma mm proved to be of championship staaamd Mr. GUI stated tbat aamsaataahV ports bad been made by prafambaas oa tbe Balmaeewaa coarse, the mm. stating iater alia, that there wemtT maay blind boms, that the eaarm am too hilly aad strenuous aad that u» fairway was too sever* to waft aa. Tbe motion that tba council aham has* tba coarse inspected aad tit proved satisfactory, held the next V. *"%***-*!*** *»» »•» MS by a vote* to 23.