PERTINENT QUESTIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1930, Page 16

PERTINENT QUESTIONS.

ASKED OF N.Z.A.A.A. COUNCIL. ALLIANCE WITH PROFESSIONALS. The following ■ letter has been forwarded by the secretary of the New Zealand Union of Cyclists to the N.Z.A.A.A. Council, relative to the dispute over control of cycling:—"Further to our letter and promise to write you our decision concerning the proposals advanced by your delegation in its interview with us at 'Auckland on 12th ult.; and in view of the fact that the meeting of the Manukau Amateur Cycling Club early next week will consider your proposals, we should like to be clear on the following points:— "(1) Is there any truth in the suggestion of your association amalgamating or combining with the professional bodies known as the N.Z. Athletic, Cycling and Axemen's Union? (2) If so, how do you explain the position, in view of your statements before us on 12th ult., wherein you charged us with entertaining professionalism, by the fact that we have raced members of the Northern Athletic Union on our programmes ?" "If you answer question (1) as being correct, you are really turning into a professional body, as you would have to take over the runners and axemen also under your organisation. "(3) If the-above is not true; and if this cycling board is apart from any interference or control by the N.Z. Amateur Athletic Association; if so, then this is , the organisation we want, and which we have been striving for—a purely cycling body to control cycling solely by those who are interested in the sport. Further, if this is so, we would like to know why we were not asked to be represented at the alleged conference in Timaru?" "We notice in the Press a statement by Mr, Bright, re a pacer who was disqualified. We take no notice of this, for we are' informed that the same pacer was accepted as such in Christchurcli. You will remember • stating that Mr. Bright had no authority when in Auckland in December last, for the statement which he made, that before the N.Z.A.A.A. would coriscnt to a c.V«ige there must be 100 per cent agreement of the cyclists. You that such a suggestion was preposterous; so we consider Mr. Briglit's remarks on this question as on a par with what he advocated when in Auckland. "I trust that you will endeavour immediately to clear up these points."