EMPIRE GAMES

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 134, 8 June 1932, Page 10

EMPIRE GAMES

LONGER INTERVAL DESIRED. LOVELOCK GOING TO OLYMPIA. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Council of the New Zealand Olympic and British Empire Games Association decided last evening to press at the conference to be held at Los Angeles, that the British Empire Games should be held every four years instead of every second year as has been the practice in the past. Mr. H. Amos, president, said members of the council were convinced that New Zealand could not afford the expense of sending a team to the Empire Games every two years. He moved that New Zealand should press for the Empire Games to be held in Olympic years, and either immediately before or after the Olympic Games. Mr. J. W. Heenan, seconding the motion, said he favoured the Empire

Games being held every four years in England when the Olympic Games were held in Europe, and in Canada when held in America. The motion was carried. ; The council also completed arrangements for the dispatch of the team to represent the Dominion at Los Angeles. It intimated that the team would receive a civic send-off from the Mayor of Wellington. The council decided to endeavour to get the distance for the eight-oar race lengthened beyond a mile and a quarter; also to make arrangements for •securing slow motion pictures of the principal competitors at the Games. J. E. Lovelock, Rhodes scholar at Oxford, is to be nominated as a member of the New Zealand team. He will travel with the British team to Los Angeles.