CYCLING CONTROL

Evening Star, Issue 20670, 18 December 1930, Page 4

CYCLING CONTROL

AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL (I’eu Uxited Press Association.] "WELLINGTON, December 17. A notice that the Now Zealand Union Cyclists Ims assumed control of both amateur and professional cycling in tlio dominion is given in a memorandum for all cycling clubs released by the organisation over the name m Mr W. T, Bray, acting secretary. The circular, which is headed, ‘ N.Z.U.C. Takes Control,’ says that by a resolution of the New Zealand Union a copy of the minutes of a meeting of the Union Cycliste Internationale, tne world controlling body for cycling, is given at the foot of the memorandum, and intended for the information of all cycling clubs, both amateur and professinnalj in New’ Zealand. “ General notice is now' given that the N.Z.U.C. lias assumed control of both branches of the sport,” states the memorandum. “It is not intended that any drastic changes shall immediately take place, but all cyclists and all purely cycling clubs will require to bo affiliated, and reasonable time will be allowed for this to be done. There will he nothing to prevent purely athletic bodies from staging cycling events in conjunction with their own races anywhere in New Zealand, provided the cyclists are registered and the sports conducted with the consent and under the auspices of the nearest union centre. The union’s constitution is based on democratic principles, and access to controlling offices is available to anyone interested in the sport.” Tlio minutes of the U.C.T. meeting referred to arc appended. They read as follows 1. Regarding Amateurs —On behalf of the N.C.U. (England), which lias constituted a committee (Messrs Percy Low, E, J. Southcott, and H. IN. Crowe) to investigate the position of cycling in New' Zealand, Mr Low read a report which finalised the affiliation of the N.Z.U.C. in Auckland for the purpose of governing amateur cycling in New' Zealand. 2. Regarding Professionals. —Mr Low, on behalf of the N.C.U., and according to the recommendations of the report ho had already made, proposed that the same organisation should govern in New Zealand professional cycling. In this matter Mr Low cited the correspondence exchanged on the subject with the Australian Federal Cycling Council which is in favour of this affiliation. The congress asked that the Australian Federal Cycling Council should confirm directly to the 1T.C.1. this decision, and that the N.Z.U.C. should make formal application for government of professional cycling. A covering letter irom M. Paul Rousseau, secretary of the U.C.1., Paris, confirmed the above.