ATHLETICS OFFICIALS APPOINTED

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25935, 15 October 1949, Page 2

ATHLETICS OFFICIALS APPOINTED

(New Zealand Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 14.

The chairman of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association (Mr H. L. Austad) to-day announced the names of 58 officials who will conduct the track and field events at the Empire Games at Eden Park from February 2 to February 11. “We have made every effort to keep the number of officials down to an absolute minimum consistent with the smooth running of the Empire competition, and at the same time we have done our best to select the men best equipped for the task,” said Mr Austad. The officials named are:

Referee, Mr A. C. Kitto (Wellington); deputy referee, Mr N. A. McKenzie (Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay); manager, Mr H. L. Towers (Auckland); starter, appointment deferred; chief track judge, Mr R. W. Cheater (Auckland); track judges, Messrs J. Gissing (.Auckland), J. S. Allan (Canterbury), E. C. Robinson (Wellington), N. J. Webster (West Coast, North Island). V. Hart (Auckland); track inspectors, Messrs R. H. Cabot (Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay), G. H. Weir (Wellington), C. Croker (West Coast, North Island), W. H. Masters (Otago), C. J. Thompson (Waikato), C. W. Clark (Otago); chief timekeeper, Mr E. W. Friedlander (Auckland); timekeepers, Messrs H. T. J. McNeil (Auckland), E. H. S. Bachelor (Canterbury), C. Bowater (Waikato). J. Dever (Otago); chief field judge. Mr J. McHolm (Wellington); field judges, Messrs R. Ansell (Auckland), S. Bartlett (Otago), E. Lunn (Canterbury), A. H. Malcolm (Waikato), S. Lewis (Canterbury); lap steward, Mr J. C. R. Howells (Auckland); assistant lap steward. Mr G. C. Smyth (Wellington); surveyor, Mr N. Alcock (Auckland). Joint secretaries and record stewards, Messrs S. Billman (Auckland) and J. A. Nodwell (Wellington); announcer. Mr I. R. L. Brown (West Coast, North Island); enclosure stewards. Messrs F. Williams (Auckland), V. R. Amoretti (Auckland), J. W furnbull (Auckland), V. Walker (Wellington): inspector of implements. Mr W. T. Woodfield (Wellington); keeper of gear. Mr S. Derbyshire (Auckland); gear steward’. Messrs W. V. Quane (Auckland). L. C. Woodward (Canterbury). T. M. Wilson (Auckland). H. Smith (Auckland), W. Clements (Auckland); marksmen. Messrs W. J. Fitzsimmons (Wellington) and W. S. Bainbridge (Auckland); call stewards. Messrs J. McNamara (Auckland). T. S. Lipscombe (Auckland), and Mrs Amoretti (Auckland); flag stewards. Messrs M C. Baker (Waikato) and R A. D. Rowse (Otago); recorders, Messrs K. W. Edmonds (Auckland) and G. W. Jackman (Wellington); wind gauge stewards. Mr G. S. Leeder (chief) and two to be appointed.