Cycling BOND ON RIDERS

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29843, 8 June 1962, Page 5

Cycling BOND ON RIDERS

Several Remits Submitted (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 7. The main item for debate at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Amateur Cycling Association, which will open in Wellington tomorrow night, will be the two-year amateur bond on Olympic and Empire Games representatives. There are four remits relating to professionalism. The Auckland centre asks that the New Zealand Olympic and Empire Games Association be asked to withdraw the present rule requiring a bond for two years to be signed by games competitors and to substitute:— “That any bond entered into between the New Zealand Olympic and Empire Games Association and competitors shall be binding to the end of the financial year only.'* Otago-Southland asks that a one-year bond apply to a representative selected for the first time but that for subsequent selections no bond be required. The same centre asks the association to abolish the present system of reinstatements and that a complete amnesty be granted all professional cyclists and officials for one year after the annual meeting. After this the centre suggests no professional except an overseas cyclist should be granted reinstatement

Otago-Southland also seeks a ruling to prevent boys under 16 from entering organised professional cycling events and receiving cash prizes. The subject of bonds and professionalism became a hot subject for discussion last year when the champion cyclist. W. Dalton broke the games bond by turning professional in Australia. The Otago-Southland centre will move that there should be sponsorship by the national association of two leading overseas cyclists to New Zealand at least every three years and that they should race at meetings in all centres.