EXCESS IN AIR FARES

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32540, 25 February 1971, Page 12

EXCESS IN AIR FARES

Cycling men billed again (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON. The manager and coach of last year’s New Zealand world championship track cycling team, Messrs D. B. Smith and W. D. H. Dalton, will be asked again to pay $379.60 each, the excess in their air fares. This was decided at the monthly council meeting of the New Zealand Amateur Cycling Association. Late last year Messrs Dalton and Smith were asked to pay these amounts after what appeared to be a miscalculation of costs in sending them and six riders to the championships. The complete party represented New Zealand at the

Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, and stayed over for the world events in Leicester, England. Some centres within the association asked that money credited to them from the New Zealand Olympic and British Commonwealth Games Association because one of the team was elevated to Category A at the last moment, be used to help pay the excess debited to Messrs Smith and Dalton. Two notices of motions came before the association’s council meeting, but both motions failed to gain the necessary two-thirds majority. The council felt that the money credited by the N.Z.0.8.C.G.A. ($935) belonged to each of the centres on a pro rata basis, and that it therefore could not make a payment from the amount. Messrs Dalton and Smith again will be charged $379.60 each. A motion passed at the November meeting that centres be credited with their share of the 5935 will stand.