EXCLUSION OF HUGHES FROM EMPIRE GAMES TEAM

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22308, 24 January 1938, Page 9

EXCLUSION OF HUGHES FROM EMPIRE GAMES TEAM

10 THE EDITOR OF ITIE I'IIKSS. ' Sir,—W'iy I be permitted to answer Mr Doyle's statements to your paper ind published on January 10. He itarts by stating that neither Hughes nor the Auckland Centre had any jround for complaint. : 1. Might 1 add that Hughes's case I was such an isolated one that the ' council of the New Zealand Amateur 'Cycling Association thought fit at its | meeting held on December 13, 1937, to 'make the following resolution:—"That 1 the Auckland Centre be written to. ! drawing attention to the fact that E. G. L. Hughes was selected on the distinct understanding that the Auckland Centre guarantee the finance required, £2O, thus confirming the verbal ; arrangements between the selectors rand the president of the Auckland i-Centre, Mr F. J. Casey. Had sufficient [funds been available, Hughes would have been selected unconditionally." \ By the way, these minutes were confirmed at the January,. 5 meeting of the association. By unconditionally, :,this centre has rightly taken it that Hughes's selection was not tentative, as Mr Doyle mentions, but absolute, as the word unconditionally definitely ; means.

. I. Then again the association was acting unconstitutionally at its meeting on January 12, 1938, when the motion deleting Hughes from selection was made. Unconstitutionally in two directions: (a) it was making a direct negative to the motion on the books, and (b) there was not a quorum at that meeting. The rule 16 states that five members of the association shall form a quorum. Only four association members were present, namely, Messrs Fitzsimmons, Knipe, Robinson, and Aldridgc. Appreciating the publication of the p !bove statements, which can be backed [by documentary evidence in posses' sion of this centre.—Yours, etc., \ L, WILSON. Hon. Secretary, Auckland Centre i New Zealand Amateur Cycling [ Association. Auckland, January 20, 1938.