BOXING.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 121, 7 May 1912, Page 2

BOXING.

MEETING OF THE NEW ZEALAND COUNCIL.

Christchurch, May 6.

At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Boxing Council the report stated that the season from a competition point of view had been of more than average interest. A number of the associations had taken advantage of the presence in New Zealand of three Australian light weights to promote professional contests at regular intervals. Consequently the professional side of the sport had received considerably more attention tion than usual, and at the same time the interests of the amateur section had been carefully guarded, so that on the whole the season might well be regarded as having been, from all points of view, extremelv satisfactory.

The balance-sheet showed the receipts to have been £37<;16/-, and the expenditure £273/2 5, leaving a credit balance of £lO6/13 7.

The report and balance-sheet were adopted. The following officers were appointed:—Patron, Sir J. G. Ward : [committee, Messrs. C. T. Aschman, C. J. Cooper, J. R .Evans, J. F.

Grierson, F. AV. Johnston, A. R. Kirk, and J -R- Olliver; hon. secretary, Mr. AV. G. Atack. Air. A. E. Alarsh was appointed auditor. The president for the year will be nominated by the Wellington Association.

The chairman and Messrs. Aschman and Kirk were appointed an executive to deal with matters of urgency.

The Hawke’s Bay Association wrote stating that as J. Al. Griffin had definitely retired from the ring the association proposed to raise a fund on his behalf, and trusted that the council would vote a contribution to the fund. The council decided that it could not accede to the request, as in its opinion to aid a fund raised in the interests of a retiring professional boxer who was neither in indigent circumstances nor incapacitated from work would be to establish a dangerous precendent.