NO ACTION TO BE TAKEN

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25160, 16 April 1947, Page 6

NO ACTION TO BE TAKEN

MEETING OF CRICKET COMMITTEE A decision to take no action in support of the delegation to protest about the increased charges was made at a meeting last evening of the management committee of the Canterbury Cricket Association. The matter was raised by letters from the Canterbury Hockey Association and the Canterbury Football Association, in which support for the delegations was requested. The chairman. Mr D. A. Colville, said that he did not altogether agree with the protest. He felt that they had always had a fair deal from the Reserves Department, and he thought that the increases were caused rising costs which the City Council felt would have to be met. “I would be very disappointed if Canterbury cricketers felt that someone else had to pay for their cricket,” Mr Colville said. “.I understand the proposed charges will be fair and reasonable, and it would be disappointing if cricketers are going to sit back and let someone else pay for their game.”

On the motion of Mr R. H. North, it was decided that no action be taken.

MEETING OF ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE

Further discussion regarding the increased charges was held at a meeting last evening of the management committee of the Canterbury Football Association.

The chairman, Mr J. E. Jones, said that he had attended a meeting of representatives of hockey. Rugby. Rugby League, Association and women’s hockey. It had been decided that each organisation prepare facts and figures regarding the extra expenses incurred by its own particular body and that a further meeting would be called. If the information was placed before the council, he felt that the council could do nothing but take notice of it.

Mr D. McGlinchy said that the figures would not relate to the ground charges so much as to the increased cost of equipment since the war. and the financial condition of the various organisations. Material had increased greatly in price. “We have only two avenues of income,” Mr Jones said. “We have to show how the cost of footballs and other equipment has increased since the war. It is slightly different with the Rugby Union—it will not suffer, as the ground charges are the concern of the clubs. The Rugby Union will support us. but it does not wish to speak or take any action. It feels that the first thing it would be asked would be, ‘What about the receipts from Lancaster Park?’ ” At a meeting of the Council of Sport, the previous evening, Mr Jones said, some delegates had been rather hurt and indignant that they had not been approached. It was his feeling that the matter was such an urgent one that no delays could be allowed to occur. The discussion then lansed.