THE AMATEUR QUESTION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7739, 20 April 1896, Page 3

THE AMATEUR QUESTION.

At a special general mooting of tho Mo ;v Znuland .wowing .iaaooialion hold at Wellington ou Saturday evening ihe questii't) of Uiteloolousal contests wus thorougly goue into, Thirty-throe oiubH wc-ro repteauutcl. Ivir G I l '. <J. Campbell provided. .Mr J. iVl'Xiniiou, representing tho Port Chulineru iiowiiiK Club, moved :—" A'hat aa the Ne<v South Wuiea Association does not waive its

amateur definition so as to allow the Queen's Drive crew to compsto iv tho intercolonial cont9.it, New Z>alaad declines to send a craw." This waa Rcconded by the Queen's Drivecrew'areprcaentative,butthechairman ruled that whilo a. roaoln ion ur-.uinM.ing ft selection B'oraraitlao wis still on the mioute book ho could not accept a motion traversing thoir action iv selecting a crew." Mr M-Kinnon th sri w j{;oili'evy his motion, aild moved '' T.tat the Ks'olullon passed at the meeting ol delegates at Picton os april 4th leaviog the question of tho selection of representative crows in tha hands of the selection committee be res«int\ed.' ! Mr Faohe Seconded tha mctJ.oll, which was put j and lost by 41 votes to 14, the cHvision list being:— For the motion—Awarua, Avon, Dunedin Amateur, Kelson, North End, Port Ohaluiurs, Queen's Drive, Union (Christchurob), and Waiholo. Against the motion —Akaroa, Auckland Blenheim, Cuiterbury, Gore, Cliftota, Giaborue, lov9re;r;;i 1 u,uhva?, lviwatiri, ■ liytCsltou, "•apior, North <*horo, Poverty Bay, St. George's, Star, Timaru, Union (Wanganui), nrjinti (Vapier), Waiternata City, Waugauui, Woi f ; .'Cad, and Y.M'.O. A, jl resolution upproving the ooiaa>itteo r B action in sending another crew to Australia waa carded on the voices,