Cash boost for sports body

Press, 20 July 1979, Page 18

Cash boost for sports body

PA Auckland, The New Zealand Sports Foundation struck it. rich at its inaugural dinner at Trillos nightclub, Auckland, which was graced by Princess Anne.

The Prime Minister (Mr Muldoon), who made the principal speech, announced that a grant of $lOO,OOO would be made to the association from the profits of the Lottery Board of Control. The grant would boost the foundation’s capital fund, and mean that during this financial year the Government would have given $220,000, he said. “I have no doubt,’’ Mr Muldoon said, “that the foundation will raise at least $lOO,OOO by its own efforts within this period.” More than 3qo guests who represented sport, industry, finance, and other sectors of New Zealand life were at the dinner.

The evening included a 20minute film of great moments of New Zealand sport. The chairman of trustees of the foundation (Mr Justice Beattie) presented Princess

Anne with a plaque to mark the inauguration. Princess Anne referred extensively to her own experience in representing Britain in the equestrian events of the 1976 Olympic Games, and said how deeply she felt for the New Zealander, Mrs Coral Harrison who, after finishing sixth in the world three-day horse trials in Kentucky last year, had had to sell her horse to cover expenses.