Interest in Australia
Mr L. G. McKay, chairman of the New Zealand Water Polo Board, has returned from a trip to Australia with good news for his sport.
He said that the Australians are “very interested” in the proposed Pacific Bowl Games at the end of January. “I was there principally to speak to water polo people, but there was a great deal of interest in swimming circles as well,” he said. The Australian water polo coach was thrilled with the timing of the event and with a suggestion that they could double as an elimination match for the World Games, Mr McKay said. The other good news he brought back was that the annual interchange between New Zealand and New South Wales schoolboy teams might be enlarged to include Victorians. The New Zealand team will meet the Victorians at the start of their tour, before the matches against the New South Wales combined high schools’ side.
Mr McKay said it seemed likely that Australia would stage the inaugural world schoolboy water polo tournament late next year.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19740423.2.173
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33516, 23 April 1974, Page 16
Word Count
177Interest in Australia Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33516, 23 April 1974, Page 16
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.