LAWN TENNIS ASSOCIATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 47, 25 February 1911, Page 2

LAWN TENNIS ASSOCIATION.

QUARTERLY MEETING. The council of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association held its quarterly meeting last night. Mr. H. M. Gore, vice-president of the association, was in the chair, and there was a good attendance of delegates representing the various centres. In accordance with a notice of motion directed to be placed on the order paper for the February meeting, the chairman moved as f olio we : — _ "Every delegate ehall vote on all questions in accordance with in6tructiona he has received from, tho association he represents. Any delegate who has received no such instructions may vote according to his own discretion." This was seconded by Mr. B. Keesing, who thought that delegates should carry out the instructions of their associations. Mr. Darb did not agree with the principle of the motion. What was required was that centres should give seven days' notice to the association when binding its delegates. This opinion was 'supported by Messrs Didsbury and Hurley. The latter contended that no delegate should be bound by his association, fivery question should be treated by them as representatives, and not as delegates. He was opposed to the principle of delegation. Only in undivided questions should they send round among the associations, and they should not be bound in dealing with matters on their individual merits. Mr. F. Wells also opposed the motion. Mr. T. Gray expressed agreement with the principle of the motion. It was thought by Mr. M. E. Denniston that the motion was only one way of making the council ineffective. Tho mover explained that his. intention was to ascertain the feeling of the meeting; he thought that the question of binding the delegates should be left entirely with the associations ; if the associations were averse from a rule like this, then the 'matter need not be pressed. _ On the motion being put, it was negatived on the voices. A vote showed elaven in favour and seventeen against. The statement of receipts and payments for the period from Ist October to 17th February showed a credit balance of £16 8s Id, and there was a sum of £90 on deposit. The report of the management committee was adoptod. Mr. PI. G. Didsbury was elected hon. auditor in succession to Mr. L. G. Mackay, resigned.