ASSOCIATION MEETINGS

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 83, 7 April 1936, Page 18

ASSOCIATION MEETINGS

GROWING MEMBERSHIP

The annual meeting of the Wellington Basketball Association was held last night, the president, Miss M. E. Armstrong, being in the chair.

Fifty-eight clubs were affiliated during the season, stated the annual report, and 115 teams competed in the association championships. Seventy additional teams were affiliated, making a total of 185.

Owing to the fact that the last annual meeting decided against the executive's recommendation that the fep for medical assistance to players be increased to one shilling each, the executive was compelled to reduce the arpount of assistance given by one-half. In spite of the fact that the clubs' special attention was drawn to the regulations governing the medical assistance fund, instances occurred during the sfeason of players and club officials Jailing to make the necessary notification, and payment could therefore not be made. Appreciation was expressed in the report of the work of the Referees' Association during the past year, and the Wellington Free Ambulance and the St. John Ambulance were thanked for their assistance. MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FUND. Referring to the question of increasing the fee for medical assistance to one shilling, the chairman said that obviously the contributions received at present were quite inadequate; it was impossible for the association to pay any large fraction of. the medical fees for injured players unless more money was forthcoming. "I quite realise the position of those who find it hard to raise the money," said Miss Armstrong, "but the advantages to the player are very real. After all, one shilling a season is hardly exorbitant." One member of the meeting expressed the opinion that the sum of ninepence should be fixed as the contribution. That would save threepence, which was "quite a lot of money." It was decided after some discussion to increase' the contribution to one shilling.per player. The decision of the New Zealand Council that the Dominion be divided into thirteen districts, and that the associations within these districts form unions, did not affect the Wellington Union to any considerable extent, except that it necessitated the severing of the new'union's connection with the Hutt Valley sub-association —which now became an -association —and an amendment to the constitution of the union. . ■ . . ELECTION OF OFFICERS. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year:—Patron, Mr. W. McLay; president, Mrs. J. Symonds; vice-patrons, the Mayoress (Mrs. T. C. A. Hislop), Miss M. E. Armstrong, and Mr. J. Burns; secretary, Miss Q. HallMcLean; fixtures secretary, Miss M. Blake; scores secretary, Miss J. Mitchell; treasurer, Mrs. A. Muir; vicepresidents, Mrs. C. Dyer, Miss O. Wharton, and Miss A. Hennessy; hon. solicitor, Mr. C. H. Ham; hon. auditor, Mr. F. G. Johnson; delegates to the New Zealand Association executive, Miss M. E. Armstrong, Miss O. Wharton, and Mrs. A. Muir; delegates' representatives, Miss P. Flan, Miss I. Palmer, Miss V. Taylor, and Miss J. Clarke.