SWIMMING.
VISIT BY JAPANESE TEAM. PROBABLE NEXT SUMMER, CHRISTCHURCH, January 10. It is possible that atom of swimmers from Japan will make a tour ot New Zealand next summer. The council 06 the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association has received advice from Mr S. Gudsell, a New Zealand business man who has been conducing negotiations on its behalf in the course of a visit to the East, that Japan cannot send a team this season owing to the imminence of the Olympic Games. Japan has already declined an invitation from America. The Japanese officials, however, promised Mr Gudsell to send a team in the summer of 1936-37. Mr Gudsell has an entirely new project to put before the council on Japan's behalf when he returns. Mr Gudsell describes the prospect of international visits as "extremely bright.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 76, 11 January 1936, Page 2
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