LEAGUE COUNCIL ASKED MR MOYLE TO RESIGN OFFICE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17831, 27 April 1926, Page 9

LEAGUE COUNCIL ASKED MR MOYLE TO RESIGN OFFICE.

TROUBLE DUE TO MONICA PARK’S GUARANTORS’ STIPULATION. After the annual meeting of the Council of the New Zealand Rugby League. held in Auckland last week, it was reported that the Council had decided to take certain action in regard to the position of Mr W. S. E. Moyle, ex-secretary of the Canterbury League, and one of the Canterbury delegates to the Council. Rumours were current as to what had happened, but no definite information was obtainable. Interviewed on his return to Christchurch this morning, Mr Moyle said that the Council had decided, on the motion of Mr E. L. McKeon, seconded by Mr W. Ponder, to ask him to resign from all executive office on the Canterbury Rugby League Centre. This motion was carried by 19 votes to 2. However, he had informed the Council that he would not resign unless he was requested to do so by the Canterbury Rugby League. The matter will be discussed at a meeting of the executive of the League to-morrow night.

Mr Moyle said that the present trouble had arisen through the following letter written to the secretary of the Monica Park Board of Control by Mr E. G. M’Cullough, on April 17: “Re mj r guarantee (with Dr Thacker) to W. Williamson for the payment of grandstand and other buildings at the Park, I beg to give notice .that I cannot see ni}-- way clear to carry out the arrangements under existing circumstances, and would ask therefore, that the board make whatever arrangements they may think fit for the payment of the amount due to the contractor within the next few days.” A copy of Mr M’Cullough’s letter was forwarded through the Canterbury Rugby League to the New Zealand League, aiid the following covering letter dated April 20 from Mr D. M’Cormick, secretary of the Board of Control was sent-with it: “Enclosed herewith please find copy of letter received bj l, my board at last night’s meeting. It was unanimously resolved that the letter be forwarded to the governing body for earnest and immediate consideration. I am directed to point out that the

matter is of the utmost urgency and seriousness from the fact that by the 23rd instant rit is necessary that we find the sum of £IOOO for the contractors, which amount it is possible to find upder certain circumstances. Mr M’Cullough has personally intimated to my board that satisfectory arrangeinents can be made if a certain person is ‘eliminated from all executive office in the Canterbury Rugby League Centre, otherwise he is compelled to act as indicated in the letter. My board therefore trusts that you will give this matter precedence in youh deliberations.” In forwarding the two letters given above to the New Zealand League, Mr S, M. Richardson, secretary of the Canterbury League, wrote as follows: ‘Enclosed please find correspondence from the Board of Control of Monica Park, and Mr E. G. M’Cullough, forwarded to you at the board's request. I am sending this correspondence on before submitting same to my executive, and make Mr M'Cormick's letter clearer by stating that Mr Moyle is the person referred to in the enclosed.”