Athletics VENUES FOR TITLES

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29842, 7 June 1962, Page 5

Athletics VENUES FOR TITLES

Senior To Be At Dunedin I A.2. Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 6. The New Zealand senior and women’s athletics championships will be held at Dunedin next year on March 8 and 9. The national crosscountry championships will be at Taradale on August 11. These venues and dates were agreed on at a meeting of the New Zealand Amateur Athletics Association council. It was also decided to invite an Australian harrier team to New Zealand next season to compete once in the North Island, once in the South Island and at the national championships. The meeting sanctioned an Otago invitation to the American miler, D. Burleson, to run at the Dunedin festival meeting from January 26 to February 2. A suggestion from Auckland that Bilka Abebe, of Ethiopia, the current Olympic marathon champion, be invited to compete in both the Auckland and New Zealand marathon championships in February and March next year was agreed to. A Japanese marathon runner, Nakao, is also being invited to compete in Auckland in the Owairaka (Auckland) Club’s marathon on October 20. The council approved the holding of a new national athletics event, to be known as the New Zealand road championship. The race will be held annually in October over 10 miles on an inter-centre basis, the first few men in each team counting for the points championship. '