SWIMMING TEAM PRACTISES
ENGLISH SWIMMERS IN AUCKLAND JOURNALISTS REFUSED ADMISSION (New Zealand Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January 31. Overseas journalists visiting Auckland to report the British Empire Games were refused admission to the Olympic swimming pool at Newmarket this evening, after they had declined to give an undertaking not to publish times put up by English swimmers against a team of Aucklanders. About 12 journalists from England and Australia declined to give the undertaking. The occasion was a privatelyarranged carnival designed to provide members of the English team with racing practice. A number of races were held, but there was no ceremony. Mr A. J. Kingsland, the starter, who is also official starter at the games, did not use a gun and no placings were announced. In some of the events only two swimmers competed. A number of bystanders took a record of the times on their own stop-watches. Several of the overseas journalists heard of the carnival to-day and during the afternoon one or two raised the question of admission to the pool to watch the events. This was referred to the chairman of the organising committee of the games (Mr C. Rex Moore) and several members, who decided that the request of the English swimming team’s manager (Dr. A. D. Kendall) that no times should be published must be respected. When the journalists reached the pool shortly before 8 p.m. they were refused admission. Mr W. O. Stockley, chairman of the Auckland Swimming Centre, was then brought to the door in answer to requests of thjfe journalists that they be allowed to enter. Mr Stockley said he. had been instructed that no journalists were to be allowed in except on an express understanding that they would not publish times. When this undertaking could not be given, Mr Stockley said he regretted that he must obey his instructions, and then returned to his office. After waiting for a few minutes the journalists had a free look over the northern wall of the pool before they returned to the city to cable their accounts of the incident. ,
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26026, 1 February 1950, Page 4
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