AMATEUR ATHLETICS

Evening Star, Issue 25034, 29 November 1943, Page 5

AMATEUR ATHLETICS

JUNIOR AND WOMEN'S MEETING ASSIGNED DUHEDIN NO SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 28. At the annual meeting of the Sew Zealand Amateur Athletic Association it was decided not to holdthe New Zealand senior championships next year. The junior and women's championships will be held in Dunedin. on March 4. The junior cross-country championship will also be held next year over a threemile course.

The meeting decided to recommend to the Management Committee that the question of affiliation with the New Zealand Council of Sport be deferred lor discussion at the'next annual meeting. it was decided that the Management Committee should co-operate with the Director of Physical Education (Mr P. A. S.mi.thellsl and Father-T. Cleary in preparing standards for schoolboys' events. The meeting decided to adhere to the rule that applications for the recognition of records must reach the secretary of the association within 30 days of the event,. The , application of the Auckland Centre for recognition as a New Zealand record of W. Heron's pole vault ol lift oiin was rejected under this rule. The question of inadequate playing areas and lack of sports equipment for schools was discussed, and it was decided to take up the matter with the appropriate authority. Cases were quoted of an intermediate school in Aucklaud and a technical school in Dunedin, where there were practically no facilities for sport. It was recognised that the Education Department made an effort to lay out grounds, but it was stated that what was needed was permanent sports equipment, the provision of which would probably have to wiat until after the war. '