THE OLYMPIC TEAM.
GIFT BY ENGLISH FIRM. DONATION OF '£loo TO FUND. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, April 17. Captain L. C. Gamage, overseas director of the General Electric Company, England, announced at a dinner given in his honour to-night, that his company would give £IOO toward the fund to send the Canterbury representatives to the Olympic Games. Captain Gamage said that the English people had always been impressed with the way All Black teams had acquitted themselves overseas, and considered that they had done much to restore the international spirit among sportsmen. He hoped that other British firms would follow the lead his firm was giving. OTAGO PROTEST CONSIDERED. CHRISTCHURCH, April 17. The Council of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association considered, at a special meeting to-night, the protest of the Otago Centre against the refusal of the council to nominate P. E. Mathieson, the Otago backstroke swimmer, for the Olympic Games. The council decided that it could not alter its previous decision, and Mathieson will therefore not be nominated.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 159, 18 April 1936, Page 2
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