AMATEUR CYCLING

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21533, 24 July 1935, Page 15

AMATEUR CYCLING

CANTERBURY CENTRE PROTESTS

APPOINTMENT OF .MEMBERS

OF FEDERATION

"It looks as though the centre is the good old drp.ught horse!" "Those who are really supporting cycling and are carrying the burden have no say in the control at all!" These, and similar statements, were made by members of the Canterbury Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Cycling Association last evening in criticism of the method by which certain members of the New Zealand Cycling Federation were appointed. After a long and sometimes heated discussion, the centre agreed to protest further against the method by which the amateur representatives on the federation had been appointed, and to ask the association why a special sub-committee elected by it to consider the method of appointment had not yet functioned.

Explaining the way the amateur members of the federation had been appointed, the chairman, Mr C. D. Doyle, said that representatives of the centres had, at the annual meeting of the association, elected two members to the federation. A month later, a meeting of the association had rescinded the motion electing those two delegates, and appointed others. The personnel of this meeting was different from that of the annual meeting. This, according to a solicitor's cdvice, was absolutely improper and illegal.

Not Actively Interested

The position was that there were men on the federation who had no active interest in cycling at all. Perhaps they were quite fair men, and did good work in some ways; but there were things which they could not understand because they were not actively associated with clubs. "It looks to me as though the solution is for the crowd on the federation to resign at the end of the year," a member said.

Several members: That is what they do, or are supposed to do. "Those who are really supporting cycling and are carrying the burden have no say in the control at all," another member asserted, and another said the association put on the federation the men it wanted. "We are the mugs," he said.

A Conference Suggested After a good deal of further discussion it was suggested that the only opportunity the centre would have to discuss the matter thoroughly and get something done would be at a conference in Wellington of delegates from the centre. •As long as the association was able to keep the centres separate, it would be able to handle things in its own way. A motion that the association should appeal to the federation against the amateur representatives on the federation was moved and seconded, but two members said that if the centre agreed to that it would be appealing to the men It was appealing against. The centre was up against a brick wall, and had no chance of doing anything Just now. The motion was amended to read: "That this centre protests further against the method by which the amateur representatives on the New Zealand Cycling Federation were appointed, and asks the association why the special sub-committee set up by it to consider the method of their anpointment has not functioned." The motion was agreed to in this form. *

PARLIAMENT TO MEET ON AUGUST 29

(PEBB3 ASSOCIATION TELBfIKAK.) WELLINGTON, July 23. A Gazette extraordinary was issued to-day summoning members of both Houses of Parliament to meet on August 29, at 2.30 p.m. At a meeting of the Executive Council authority was given for the closing of the main parliamentary rolls