CORRESPONDENCE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1533, 31 August 1912, Page 12

CORRESPONDENCE.

/A TRENCHANT EPISTLE. In connection with a certain nliaso of local Olympic matters "Mercury lins received tho following epistle. It only remains to sny that "Sprint" lias voiced the general opinion of the local athletic community. The only reason that tho motion hstori the N'ew Zealand Olympic Council to which he obiccts so rigorously

lias not excited more attention is that no 0110 lias taken it seriously. "Doar 'Mercury,'—l do not know what you think of Mr. Q. 13. S. Ilill's proposal at the Inst meeting of the local ooimnittco of tlio Olympic Sports, that New Zealand should rank us a separate nation, but 1 hold that it is the purest and most puerile bit of swank that I have ever heard. Surely Mr. Hill is not proposing that these two tiny red dots on tlto ma]) cf the world with a total population about one-seventh of the city" of London or New York, should take e'nual rank with England, the United States, or Germany? "It is an unfortunate thing with tho great untravellcd in this country that they fail to realise the real insignificance of. New Zealand in tho constitution of tho world. Anyhow, we are not a sepnrato nation, and not likely to be. Indeed, we are lucky in being included with Australia as a nation as far as tho Olympiad is concerned. For our committee to forward such a motion to Mr. Coombes for transmission to Europe wou'ld be to court ridicule and a sure and certain refusal. Hang it all! Leave the Olympic Council somo shreds of dignity, and the Dominion people sonic claim to bo considered sane.—l am, etc., "SPRINT.".