AMATEUR ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12767, 8 February 1910, Page 4

AMATEUR ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.

[United Press Association.] Wellington, Feb. 7. A meeting of the Council of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association was held this evening. The Otago centre notified that it was not in favour of the proposal to make a levy on. club members towards the financing of th© New Zaeland representatives at the Olympic games, but it would, if called upon, do all -in its power to raise any amount which it might be called upon to provide for this purpose. The Otago centre favours holding the annual cross-country championship under the auspices of the Southland centre. Canterbury thinks that a more central place for the race than Riverton would suit better. The matter will be dealt with when the other centres reply to the Council's circular. The Wellington centre applied for the affiliation of the Hawera club. Some discussion took place on the subject of the> extension of the. Wellington district, which includes Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, and Nelson, as compared with the other districts. The opinion was freely expressed that something ought to be done to lessen the district, either by forming a mew centre at Wanganui, or by attaching Nelson to Canterbury. Another proposal was to attach Taranaki to Auckland. The affiliation was agreed to, and a oommittee was setup to report on the better distribution of centres. Reinstatment as amateurs was agreed to in tho cases of J. W. McKenzie, Invercargill, and J. Garrett, Auckland. The State premiership shield won by the New Zealand team at Brisbane in October last is to be held by the President, and wiU be insured. Mr C. E. Bredge brought forward a proposal for the disposal of the gold medal presented to the Association by the Queensland Jubilee Exhibition Committee, in commemoration of the performances of the New Zealand athletes t at the last Australian championship meeting at Brisbane. He proposed that the medal be mounted on wood and mad© a challenge trophy, to be presented every year at the New Zealand championship meeting, the award to be made on the records and standards gained by provincial representatives. The province with the most points '. to take the medal for the year.; The proposal was adopted, and will be put into practice at Auckland.