LACKS PUBLIC SUPPORT

Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1930, Page 11

LACKS PUBLIC SUPPORT

THE iN.P. MOTOR CYCLE CLUB. ITS WINDING-UP SUGGESTED. (Special io News.) Marton, August 6. At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Auto Cycle Union at Marton to-day a letter was received from the New Plymouth Motor Cycle Club advising that it would not be possible to continue as a club owing to lack of public support. It was accordingly regretted that affiliation with the union would have to cease, and steps were being taken to wind up the club. Mr. L. Pickering (Napier): It is a great pity that this club is. going out. Cannot the A.C.U. do something? “This letter has come as a great surprise’to me,” said the president, Mr. W. A. Spragg (Hawera). “If they had let me know I would have tried to get New Plymouth to continue; if not as an auto cycle club, then as a sports club.” Mr. F. R. Jones, Christchurch, endorsed the expressions of regret at New Plymouth’s intention to drop out. It was the duty of the union to help all the chibs which were faced with difficulty in obtaining tracks to race on, was his opinion.

“They may be up against things now,” he said, “but we don't know what the future holds for this sport. We had the same difficulty in Christchurch. We kept on hammering away for a ground, and are on a good basis now. Surely, in a province like Taranaki, where there are so many young riders coming on, there should be an effort made to keep the clubs going.” • During further discussion the probability that reliability trials, staged on a national basis, might help solve the difficulty, was broached, and finally the matter was left in Mr. Spragg’s hands to negotiate with the New Plymouth club, and in Hawera to endeavour to have the sport placed on a firm basis. In the meantime, the request .to secede from the union has been held' abeyance.