ATHLETIC CONFERENCE OPENS HERE ON FRIDAY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18960, 6 January 1930, Page 5

ATHLETIC CONFERENCE OPENS HERE ON FRIDAY.

The annual conference of delegates to the New Zealand Athletic, Cycling, and Axemen’s Union will be held on Christchurch on Friday next. Delegates from most parts of New Zealand will attend, coming from Invercargill, Central Otago, Dunedin, Oamaru, Timaru, Greymoutli, Wanganui, New Plymouth and Gisborne. The total number of delegates will be about sixteen. The president of the union, Mr G. E. Perkins, of Greymouth, will preside. On Friday morning the visiting delegates will be officially welcomed at the Chamber of Commerce Hall, and the business of the conference will be proceeded with at ten o’clock. The North Canterbury Centre of the Union will entertain the delegates to a complimentary dinner at the Cadena on Friday evening, and a smoke concert will foil OWL if the business is not completed on Friday it will be concluded on Saturday morning. In the evening the delegates will bo the guests of the Victory Athletic and Cycling Company at English Park Stadium, when the Australian professional runners, Lynch Cooper and J. D. Fitt, will make their first appearance in New Zealand. On Sunday the visitors will he taken for a drive over the Cashmere Hills, with afternoon tea at Teddington, and a trip through the Mot.ukarara district. One remit aims at the elimination of mixed meetings. The North Canterbury delegates have been given a free hand in discussing this proposal, which is almost certain to be favoured strongly by some southern delegates.