APPEAL TO PREMIER.
FOR INCLUSION OF ATHLETE. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND. Jan. 19. The exclusion of Miss Edna Munro from the Empire Games team has resulted in a direct appeal being made to the Prime Minister by the Auckland Centre of the Amateur Athletic Association. A telegram despatched by the secretary (Mr Jenner Wily) appeals to Mr Savage, in his joint capacities as Prime Minister and president of the Olympic Council, and “as the one man in New Zealand who would, not consciously permit an injustice to be perpetrated, to intervene on behalf of- Miss Munro, the Auckland high jump champion and Dominion record-holder, whose highbanded exclusion from the Empire Games has outraged public sentiment and aroused bitter feeling among all sections of the community here.” The centre asks Mr Savage to extend his best offices in order to induce, without loss of dignity to the selectors, reconsideration of the application in the interests of fail play and the maintenance of the democratic principles of amateur sport in New Zealand. The centre points out that the only available steamer leaves Auckland to-morrow.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 44, 20 January 1938, Page 2
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182APPEAL TO PREMIER. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 44, 20 January 1938, Page 2
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