OLYMPIC GAMES.
AUSTRALASIAN FUND SUGGESTED. . • (By TelcffTaph.—Pr€ea Atssoniaiiofc.) . Auckland, December 22, Tho suggestion that New Zealaijd should join with Australia in establishing a fund with which to send on Australasian team of athletes to compoto at tho Olympic Games in Berlin in 1916 is contained in a letter which tho Mayor (Mr. C. J. Parr) lias received from tho Lord Mayor of Sydney. Tho latter mentions that at a large gathering of influential citizens held in Sydney it was decided that such a fund should bo established, each of the Australian. States and New Zealand starting funds, the proceeds of which might bo, placed together in an Australasian fulfid when the timo came for the selection of a team from tho various parts of Australia and Now Zealand. Mr. Parr remarked to a reporter that providing it was possible for New Zealand to join in tho Australasian movement on a satisfactory basis he thought that tlio suggestion might be worth acting upon.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1939, 23 December 1913, Page 8
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162OLYMPIC GAMES. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1939, 23 December 1913, Page 8
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