GIFT OF N.Z. LAMB
Olympic Menu To Benefit (N.Z P.A -Reuter—Copyright) TOKYO, August 26. A gift of . one and one half tons of choice New Zealand lamb was presented today to Tokyo Olympic villages to supplement the diet of Games athletes in October. The presentations were made by the New Zealand Ambassador (Mr E. B. E. Taylor) and Sir Andrew Linton, a member of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board to Olympic village chairmen at the board’s office in Tokyo. They handed over the lamb today as a “mokuroku” or symbolic gift to be delivered to the main village at suburban Yoyogi and at the Hachioji and Sagamiko villages in western Japan, at dates suitable to the villages. The lamb, already cut and specially packed in 111 b cartons, is at present in cold storage in Tokyo.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30530, 27 August 1964, Page 13
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