GOOD CREDIT BALANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 65, 18 March 1930, Page 8

GOOD CREDIT BALANCE.

£1000 TO INVEST. WELLINGTON'S CRICKET YEAR CONSERVATION POLICY OUTLINED. (By Telegraph. —Special to "Star.") WELLINGTON, this day. That the Wellington Cricket Association has had a record financial year was > announced by the chairman of the management committee at last night s 1 meeting. Mr. Broad explained thai the I association already showed a profit ot ; £500 on the season's operations, ana ' should have a consolidated fund ot £1400 by the end of the season. He suggested that £1000 should be invested in some permanent form at the end of the season. . The balance-sheet for the Welling-ton-Canterbury Plunket Shield match showed gross takings amounting to £325, and net takings £243 14/10. Of this £6 16/9 had gone to the New Zealand Cricket Council, and £41 0/9 _ to the .Canterbury Cricket Association, ' leaving a profit to the Wellington Association of £88 18/2. The chairman announced the committee's policy in regard to a coach. It was not considered advisable to engage a coach until the salary could be paid from income. The first objective was to put the finances of the association , on a sound basis. It had been decided to open a coach fund. If they could once > get a nest-egg of £4000 or £5000 they ' could safely embark on a coaching 1 sclicniG. It was not intended, he said in reply I to a question, to regard the coach fund i as the capital of tH association. The t value of a coach was discussed in gene- , ral terms* some taking the view that ' the coach's proper„place was the schools. The view was exprc sed that if a coach was engaged, it should be for - three years. Another speaker considered ' it should be possible to get a coach from Australia, which would be £100 a i year cheaper than getting one from Eng- , land, the difference being in the passage money. Talk turned to methods of nn- >' proving representative practice cricket, and it was- decided that the sole selecs tor should submit suggestions.