ATHLETIC RELATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1929, Page 14

ATHLETIC RELATIONS

MANAWATU DISSATISFIED

In "The Post" last week there appeared a special report of a meeting of tho Manawatu Amateur Athletic Subcentre, in which reference was made to certain complaints against the Wcl; lington Centre regarding matters iti connection with the new Hawkes Bay Sub-centre, and also to a proposal that the Manawatu Sub-centre should secede from the Wellington Centre and link up with the Wanganui-Taranaki Centre.

When the Wellington Centre mot last evening it had'before; it a letter from the Mauawatu Sub-centre. Regarding the Hawkes Bay matters the ' letter stated: "The Manawatu Snb-cantre still adheres to its attitude that it has been treated with studied ■ indifference throughout. ... In view of the stand taken by the centre and the treatment meted out by it to this sub-centre, it has been decided that it would bo useless to xmrsue the matter further. The sub-centre very reluctantly agrees to the transfer of the Dannovirkc Club to the now sub-centre, accepting the assurance of your centre that the clubs south of Daimovirko are to remain affiliated with this sub-centre," Dealing with the suggestion that the sub-centre should break relations with the Wellington Centre, the letter stated that the concensus of opinion at the meeting at which the proposal was considered was that the sub-centre had been most unfairly _' treated in the past, and at timua its existence practically ignored. i

The chairman (Mr. A. C. Kitto) said that the oub-centrc had been unfortunate in thc.lniatter of secretaries. If they would not answer tho centre's correspondence, of which there liad been instances, they could not blame the centre. On one occasion a secretary of the Manawatu Sub-centre had been invited to attend v meeting of the centre. _ He had nothing to nay at the meeting, but went back from Wcllino-. ton and created a disturbance. As for tho:othor matter, it had been stated in Auckland'a few years ago that if thy, Manawatu Sub-centre wished to link, up with the Wangauui-Taranaki body, tho Wellington Centre would have no objection: to that course being taken. If the centre now agreed to the break being made, he considered that the subcentre should take in Palmcrston North and clubs north of that district.

After some further discussion, it was decided to leave the matter in the hands of a sub-committee.