LADIES’ GOLF.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1512, 17 April 1919, Page 15

LADIES’ GOLF.

A Resignation. At a meeting of the Executive Committeee of the Ladies’ Golf Union held at the L.G.U. Office, Lady Golfers’ Club, 3 Whitehall Court, London, on January 9, 1919, Mrs. Lewis Smith reminded the committee that on May 9, 1916, Mrs. Miller (after the death of her husband, Mr. T. H. Miller) had written to her as chairman the following letter: —“It it were not wartime I would delay writing this, but as I know the committee do not -want to be called together more than is absolutely necessary, I write now to say that I shall be grateful if you will relieve me, of the responsibility of office as soon as you can. I realise all the difficulty and I do not want to make things worse. In Miss Macfarlane I feel sure we have a capable woman. I am quite willing to help her, and if the committee wish it, I am quite willing for the secretaries to go on consulting me and asking for instructions or information as long as the war lasts. I do not even insist on my resignation being made public now if you prefer to postpone it, only I want you all to understand that I can never take up the work again, so that you can make your arrangements.” To this letter Mrs. Lewis Smith had replied that the members of the Executive Committee greatly regretted Mrs. Miller’s decision to resign the hon. secretaryship of the L.G.U., but they fully understood her reason, and had no option but to accept her resignation. They wished to place on record in the minutes their deep appreciation of all the work she had done for the L.G.U. since its inception. They would prefer that the matter should not be made public at the time, end gratefully accepted her offer that questions might be referred to her by the secretaries while the war lasted. Mrs. Miller had now written saying that she wished her resignation to be made public, and the committee had no option but to act in accordance with her wishes. Mrs. Miller has been honorary secretary of the Ladies’ Golf Union since its inception in 1893, and was the originator of the system of handicapping which did so much to popularise and improve the game for women.