ATHLETICS N.Z. OLYMPIC TEAM LEAVING NEXT MONTH

Grey River Argus, 8 April 1948, Page 6

ATHLETICS N.Z. OLYMPIC TEAM LEAVING NEXT MONTH

WELLINGTON, April 7. The New Zealand Olympic learn, which will sail from Auckland on May 5, is expected to arrive in London about the first week in June, and is likely to leave on its home journey in the last week of August, said the team’s manager, Mr D. T. Woodfield, at a meeting of the management committee of the N.Z.A.A.A.. Whether the team’s athletes should take partin special invitation events for athletes from the British Empire at the London Athletic Club’s meeting on August 10 was left Io Mr Woodfield’s decision after arrival. The committee felt it could not be decided now whether the meeting would fit' in with the training schedules. D. M. Harris was given permission to travel to Iceland at the end of May at the invitation of the British Amateur Athletic Board as a member of a team which would be away from England for about a fortnight. No invitation is to be sent, to Australia for a team of hariders to visit New Zealand in the coming season. This was decided by the management committee of the N.Z.A.A.A.. after receipt of a report on travel facilities and the probable cost of the tour. The committee decided to inform affiliated centres that such a visit might be feasible next year, ana to ask how far the centres were prepared to go towards financing it.