BOXING FINANCES

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1934, Page 23

BOXING FINANCES

COUNCIL'S BALANCE-SHEET

An interesting guide to the amount of activity in each of the associations affiliated to the New Zealand Boxing Council is provided by a,Summary of the receipts from associatioils. given in the council's annual report,' The biggest "contributor for:, the twelve months ended ■'June 30 was the .Marlborough Association, which, paid in-,£168 15s lid, including £.128. 10s, •'the recordbreaking profit from the Dominion amateur championships. Four permits for amateur contests,', and the'same number for professional bouts were paid for by the association. Next on the list came Southland, the

heavyweight centre, which, took _ out seven amateur and eleven professional permits and paid £126 13s 4d to the council. The charge of 5 per,cent, on purses accounted for £46 ss, the 2 per cent, on the house receipts for £34 13s lid, and payments to the insurance fund for.'£l6 14s od. WELLINGTON'S POSITION. :' Those who are aware how active boxing has been'in Wellington during the past year will be given an idea of how things arc as regards the Dominion as a whole when they learn that Wel'lington occupied third place with a sum of £SB 4s 7d. Amateur permits accounted for £l, professional for £l4, the purse levy for £l9 15s, the house levy for £l7 6s Id, and insurance payments for £6 3s 6d. The principal other associations, according to their contributions, were Auckland, £42 4s. 7d; Christehureh, £39 12s lOd; Otago, £37 17s 8d; ) -Napier, £27 17s 3d; Greymouth, £27 2s 3d; and Gisborne, £25 17s 3d. , I ' The totals under the various headings .were: Amateur permits, £65; professional permits, £134; 5 per cent, .purse levy, £lsl 8s 7d; 2 per cent, house levy, £127 lis Id; insurance fund, £6O 0s 7d. These items, with the championship tournament profit of £l2B 10s, make a total of £660 10s 3d. THE INSURANCE FUND. ■ Grants from the insurance fund last year totalled £ll6 16s, including' £2O towards the Lowe benefit fund. Manawatuand Wanganui were the main recipients, with £2O each, ' Wellington coming third with £l6 4s. The fund had a balance of £1077 4s 5d on June 30. ■ The trip of the amateur team to Brisbane last year.resulted in the overseas account beiilg reduced from. £lB5 Is 7d to £2 7s lOd. TO secure* this result it was necessary to transfer £BO 10s 9d from the general account, in addition to taking in a donation of £l6 5s from the Miramar Club (whose trainer travelled with the team) and interest amounting to £2 65.3d. The tour cost £2Bl 15s 9d. Account "B" (New Zealand cham-. pionship fund) was left with a bank balance of £125 2s lOd after making a payment to the ' general [ account, by authority of rule 23a of the council's constitution, of a sum of £220 os'Bd. The general account ended the * -year with a balance of £7l 5s 5d., ' '.-.

VALUABLE OFFICER

THE N.Z.B.G. SECRETARY

Among sports bodies, as well- as among local bodies and other organisations, it is common practice to settle many a ticklish point or escape a possibly irksome duty by "leaving it to the secretary," on to whoso shoulders frequently fall more than a fair share of the criticism' which may be directed towards the body in question, and much loss than a fair share of the praise. Though the responsibility an matters of policy remains with the secretary's employers, their part often entails little more than the confirmation of action already taken, when the official is a man who knows his job well. Among New Zealand's controllers of sport, there are "few bodies of men who command greater respect than the New Zealand Boxing Council, the personnel of which has remained unchanged.for a number of years. * Similarly, it would be necessary to go far to Jind a secretary who has a better conception of his duties and of the best way to carry them out than the council's secretary, Mr. G. P. Aldridge. In his dealings throughout the year with boxers and boxing associations Mr. Aldridge has any amount of difficult, not to say delicate, situations to cope With, and the manner in which he invariably combines courtesy and tact with the right degree of firmness has had much to do with the maintenance of boxing's high standard of control. Indirectly this has been reflected in the wholly harmonious relations which have always existed between the council and tho Internal Affairs Department which controls boxing .under the provisions of the Police Offences Act. When" it is added that in Mr. Aldridge the sport has in an executive position a man whose opinions regarding a contest or a boxer «arry at least as much weight as thoso of any other man in the Dominion, his suitability for tho position is made all the more apparent. [ Mr. Aldriclgo is one who realises the I power to assist boxing which is held by the Press, and in his dealings with Press 'representatives he is always ready to give every assistance.