TENNIS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14325, 15 October 1910, Page 12 (Supplement)

TENNIS.

1 xCitiferbury is on the warpath again. The latest Cliristchurch quibble concerns the proposal of the .New Zealand i 'Association to engage a permanent paid secretary. The proposed salary is ±.'so and bonus of £lO for the Xew Zealand championship meeting when . held at headquarters and <,f t'J-j when \ held elsewhere in the Dominion. It .was decided to instruct the Canterbury Association's delegates w> oppose the amount of the salary, the opinion being that £3O per a-unum was sufficient, . and also to oppose a bonus to the -■ ecretary for attending -championship meetings. Much could be written about the *'cut-it-fine" propensities of the Christchurch people—but, fancy, £3O ! I suppose, says Northern writer. the secretary would be required "to pay his own travelling and out-of-pocket expenses, which would amount to something for an eight or ten-day;* 1 absence in Auckland or Dunedin, for instancel .D- S. Smith has been selected as Victoria College's candidate for t!I-J Rhodes Scholarship. His record to date as a. man and as an athlete is an enviable ono, and I feel sura that I am voicing the sentiments or the larjr't number of tennis players with v.l:o>ii Dave is deservedly jxipuiar, when ( express the wish that naxr, v<*:.r i/:!l m-.; him in residenco at Oxford.—"S.X. Times." Miss Butterworth, a well-l:r.-.;-vn Canterbury player, is now resident in \V ellmprton and will plnv for ThtirtjSilo Ghould be found in tl:-: club's senior team when the matches are under way. Th« twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Xeir Zealand Association wil! ;ake ploeo on 14th October. The i-lre*' nliters on tlu> order-paper to interest d- legates will be the proposed amendment of _tli voting powers of association:.. This was a matter suggested >om« time Back by the late hon. fccrotarv. who found that some associations ljarl rirown to such an extent that a redraftiii:ji of the representation rule was neeessarv. 3?or instance, when the as-soeiation was reorganised in 1903. Canterlmrv had eiehfc clubs, with 4DO members, licit hy 1907, it had practicallv doubled its cltibs and members. Yet it had not .increased its votes. The time then ripe for a readjustment', hni a.--.,-ciations had no reason then value votes of delegates to any meal ,x----tent. and the matfer was not. 1 akin ▼erv seriously. _ Consequently, !he • securing the jiecps-'arv as-sistance-to carry his idea, had to .i,--.cept the'decision "that the rule .-land [.Unaltered." _ What a eliancc .some associations"lost then,- and what, chance ihsrerHmr-of ®wiirmE an alteration jaoir T