THE ATHLETIC TROUBLE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 138, 10 December 1908, Page 2

THE ATHLETIC TROUBLE.

COMJIENT .ON THE SITUATION.: Referring to the f telegraphed report of yesterday's proceedings of the Council of the New Zealand Amateur Athletio Association, a member of the Wellington Centre expressed full approval of the decisions that body had arrived at. "That's exactly what we wanted them to do," he said in commenting on th& decision to circularise clubs. "Now we have compelled them to come out into the open and lay the case before th« clubs." Another subject for satisfaction was the decision to write to the Australasian Union. At first the council refused to send the Wellington Centre's protest to the Australasian Union, and now it had decided to write on the subject. That was exactly what they wanted from the first. It was, however, preposterous for Mr. Nordon to suggest that the Wellington men, if their nominations had been accepted, might have voted the whole of the council's funds to pay their travelling expenses. Most likely the nominees j would have paid their own expenses, or, at any rate, the clubs would have paid ' them. As to another point, it was perfectly clear from correspondence in the hands of the secretary of the Wellington Centre chat the Auckland Centre did not disapprove of the conference. It simply ' said that it was unable to nominate a delegate. It wag also wrong to say that 1 Otago did not know what the trouble A r as about. As a matter of fact, one of , Ihe Otago delegated told the conference that the Harrier Clubs in Dunedin probably did not take much interest in the working of the centre, but he felt sura they would have the support of those clubs oorn r the question of secession.