ATHLETICS
0 CANADIAN TEAM FOR EMPIRE GAMES STATE grant found DISAPPOINTING ' (N.Z.P 4. —Reuter—Copyright) ' MONTREAL, September 28. The Canadiai Government to-day announced a grant of 20.000 dollars to help to send a team to the British Empire Games in Auckland next year. Team officials we-e disappointed. One said that the Government had been expected to contribute a larger share of the 90,000' dollars needed..
ACCOMMODATION ON ATLANTIS
SUGGESTION MADE IN THE HOUSE (TJew Zealand Press Association, t WELLINGTON, September" 30. The suggestion that during the Empire Games in February the Govern-ment-chartered liner Atlantis should be in Auckland, to be used to accommodate visitors to the city, was made by Mr H. Freer (Government, Mount Al’ -*rt) in the House of Representatives to-day. * He gave notice to ask the Prime Minister if the schedule of the Atlantis could be altered to enable that to be done.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25923, 1 October 1949, Page 2
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