CYCLING CENTRE DISPUTE

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22120, 16 June 1937, Page 12

CYCLING CENTRE DISPUTE

♦ AVON CLUB IGNORES INVITATION Although officials of the Avon Cycling Club were personally invited by

the Canterbury Cycling Centre to attend the centre's meeting last evening, to discuss the dispute between the club and the centre, no representatives of the club attended. "We have received no advice whatsoever that they did not want to come." said Mr C. D. Doyle (president of the centre). "They have not responded to the invitation. The president made a long statement on his attendance in Wellington at a recent meeting of the New Zealand Amateur Cycling Association, at which the "application" of the Avon Club for separate affiliation to the association was discussed. He produced telegrams to show that newspaper reports, taken legitimately from the minutes of the New Zealand Association s meeting, gave a wrong impression. It was not correct, he said, that the centre had been asked to waive the suspensions of officials of the Avon Club. Further, the minutes did not intimate the feeling of the Wellington meeting, which was that clubs should not be given independent affiliation. In fairness to the Avon Club this impression should be corrected. It was also not constitutional for the New Zealand Association to receive correspondence directly from a club, instead of through the centre. This correspondence had been laid on the table and had been referred to during the meeting. It was decided that the centre question the correctness of the minutes. The following committee was set up to inquire into the matter:—The president, the secretary (Mr C. W. Taylor), Messrs C. McConnell, E. Stace, and H. L. Grant. It was also decided to inform the New Zealand Association that the Avon Club had been invited to send representatives to the centre meeting, and had not responded.