ATHLETICS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1932, Page 2

ATHLETICS

EMPIRE GAMES

N.Z. COUNCIL DEC SIONS

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, June 8

The Council of the New Zealand Olympic and British Empire Games Association decided last evening to press, at t e conference to be held at Los Angeles, that “British Empire gameshould only be held every four yea'.fi, instead of every second year, as ha; been the practice in .the pa:?t. Mr Amos (President) said members of the Council were convinced th-.'t “New Zealand could not afford the expense of sending a team to the Empire Games every t"'o year-. He moved that iNew Zealand should press for Empire Games only to be held in Olympic year-g and either immediately before m (ter Olympic Games. .Mr Heenan seconding the motion said lie favoured Empire Games being held every four years in England, when .Olympic Games were he'd in Europe, and in Canada when held in America. The motion was carried.

The Council also completed arrangements for the despatch of the team to represent the Dominion at Los Angeles. It was intimated that the team wouid receive a civic -send off front the Mayor of Wellington, 1

' The Council decided to endeavour to get the distance for the eight oar race lengthened beyond a m’le and a quarter ; also to’ make arrangements for securing slow motion pictures of the principal competitors "•‘••the Games. It was decided that J. E. Lovelock, now a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford,, be nominated as a member of the Now 7e r jVnd team, and should travel with the British team.