OLYMPIC CONFERENCE.
MR. CQOMBES TO GO TO PARIS. By Telegraph—Press Assmiiitton-CtopyriEtal r Melbourne, January 26. The Olympic representatives' "conference lias concluded. Tho headquarters of the federation have been fixed at Sydney for the next four years. A new council, consisting of throe New South Wales members, two each from Victoria, Queensland' and South Australia, and ono from Tasmania, was elected. In the- event of New Zealand reconsidering its dceijsiari'. to hold aloof from tho federation, two additional delepates will bo appointed to represent the Dominion. The conference ashed Mr. I?, Coambes, representing Australia and New Zealand on tho International Olympic Committee, to attend a congress in Paris in Juno next. Tho Australasian delegates to this congress are to bo instructed to ask for a reduction in the number of competitors representing a. nation, a more equitable allotment of points, no minimum ago for competitors, and the inclusion of boxing, wrestling, and open boat sailing in tho standard programme. THE NATIONAL SENTIMENT. DEFECTION FROM FEDERATION WILL NOT HELP IT. (Rec. January 26, 8.50 p.m.) ! Sydney, January 26. The "Sydney Morning HeraM's" Melbourne correspondent says "The growing national sentiment, which was advanced as tho reason why New Zealand was adverse to being dhvgged at the chariot wheels of Australia, cannot bo helped by tho _ Dominion's defection from tho Olympic Federation. The National Council to hi? recognised by tlm International Olympic Committee' can only ho constituted by one represcnta-. tive of Australia and New Zealand on that committee, which lias already refused an application from South Africa for separate representation on the grounds of increasing tho voting powers of tho Em* piro beyond tho number allotted to the United States and the Continental nations."
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1968, 27 January 1914, Page 5
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281OLYMPIC CONFERENCE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1968, 27 January 1914, Page 5
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