UNIVERSITY athletes

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 659, 10 May 1929, Page 13

UNIVERSITY athletes

tour of AUSTRALIA explanation by committee Press Association WELLINGTON, Thursday, ■n-jth regard to the report from Dunthat "the oublicatiou of the uni--I,v amateur athletic team to visit was made prematurely and .vustiahA officially selected, "-'t; announced in a few days, 11. L, j.i- captain of \ ictoria Lni\t rMcC °,Allege Amateur Athletic Club, fity —a today that the arrangements had been carried out were quite i“. 0 „ rd . e nvitation from Sydney UniverAn J". obtained oy Mr. Dunbar, an «« timber of the Victoria College rld , «ho had been in Sydney lor 'tf'nMt two years, and it was an ,h .f.ion for Victoria College to send station s dnev The college athletic decided, however, to make the ' *■; ooen to all Now Zealand colleges, LT SSigements were kept in the * dfTd those at Wellington. The m was selected and all arrangeh~*i been made, when it was fi to hand over the control to <>^ Cl newlv -formed National bmon of I?, aentsof New Zealand, but this was - mibiect to three conditions as (1) That the whole of the eements made to date must stand; * wffiat the existing personnel of the 1 "mas published should not be inter’*“3 with although possibly new f 'might be added; and (3) that Victoria University College com'“Jtee continue to run the tour, acta sub-committee of the New island National Union of Students. 7 ur McCormick, who is the chairn of the committee which carried (the negotiations, stated that those renditions had all been accepted in S bv the New Zealand National i n,on of Students, and it was therer "i futile to suggest that the announcement of the team was prema,U HS added that the following telegram had been sent today to the New 7eaUnd National Union of Students’ headquarters in Christchurch; Take strongest exception to pub-

lished statement from Dunedin that announcements of names, etc., of team for Australia is premature. Unless whole arrangements to date are accepted we refuse to hand over."