DELEGATE'S STATUS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 55, 3 September 1934, Page 13

DELEGATE'S STATUS

CYCLING ADMINISTRATION

Tn n letter to "The Post," too long to bo published in Ml, Mr. A. A. Nattr.i» comments on the opposition -voiced on Thursday night at the meeting of the couneU of the New Zealand . Amateur Cycling Association by the chairman (Mi. H. D. Bennett) and the secretary (Mr. H Amos) against his being allowed, without being reinstated as an amateur, to take a seat on the council as. a delegate from the West Coast (North Island) Centre. Some 25 years ago Mr. Nattrass was a cash rider For some time past he has been prominently identified with the amateur side of cycling, and earlier still he was associated in an official capacity with aSateur athletics. Mr. Nattrass appended to his statement a copy of a letter received by him from the N.Z.A.C A. and a copy of the reply he forwarded to that communication. ~ wnlfll The letter to him from the N.Z.A.U.iV stated that, recognising the valuable time he had given to the administration ot sport, especially in cycling, the association would welcome him -as; -a..colleague,, provided he intimated in writing that no understood the privilege carried with it his automatic reinstatement as an amateur. ■Mr. Nattrass'a attitude to reinstatement is summed up by a paragraph in his letter in reply as follows:-"Unfortunately you are asking me to do something that is repugnant to me. I might just as well have applied to the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association to be reinstated years ago. As already expressed to you personally, I am proud of my athletic career and am not prepared to do anything to wipe it off the slate, or cast any reflection on it." , -. , T , In his letter to "The Post" Mr. Nattrass states that he resents any suggestion that he is trying to get on to the cycling council by back-door methods. He points out that the New Zealand Amateur Cycling Association has not yet adopted a set of rules, and that being so, declares that it must either be guided by the rules of the world controlling body, the Union Cycliste Internationale, France, or by some set of rules used by another association affiliated to the U.C.I. In conclusion, he states that if Mr. Bennett and the other delegates to the N.Z.A.C.A. signed an amateur declaration he would do so too, or retire; and if Mr. Bennett could show him a U.C.I, rule that debarred him from acting he would most certainly retire. He objected, however, "to being singled, out for special treatment by cither Mr. Bennett or Mr. Amos." IF YOU SEEK HAIB BEAUTY. Tho softness and beauty ol! hair after a lavish shampoo with Sheeua Soapless Shampoo thrills you. Hair you can wave immediately—such new-found sheen—such a feeling of scalp lifet Sheena preserves the neural, necessary hair oils, as it eontaitts no harmful alkali. 9d packet from D.l.C.—Advt.