COMING TENNIS TOURS

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 4, 29 September 1933, Page 6

COMING TENNIS TOURS

Southland Not Included

N.Z. BODY CRITICISED

By Telegraph.—Press Association,

Invercargill, September 28.

The exclusion of Invercargill from the itineraries of both the Australian and the English touring tennis teams provoked strong criticism of the New Zealand association management committee at the annual meeting of the Southland association this evening, and the following resolution was carried: “That this meeting of delegates to the Southland Lawn Tennis Association, representative of all tennis players in the province, enter a most emphatic protest against the grossly unreasonable attitude of the New Zealand association in persistently excluding Invercargill from the itineraries of overseas teams, and particular!}- from the itineraries of both the English and the Australian representatives, who are separately visiting New Zealand next month. The point is stressed that the Southland association is the ninth largest in New Zealand, and has in the past supported the parent body both financially and otherwise. The first constitutional object of the New Zealand association is to foster and control the game of lawn tennis in New Zealand, but while the control may bo present, the ’fostering is limited in its application. In the present circumstances this association sees no benefit to be gained by the continuance of payment of affiliation fees, and while it would regret the necessity of seceding from the New Zealand association such action may become inevitable unless the parent body displays greater sense of justice in its administration of the game.”