OLYMPIC GAMES

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 256, 13 July 1926, Page 19

OLYMPIC GAMES

FUTURE REPRESENTATION OF NEW ZEALAND. In view, of the highly unsatisfactory position of the affairs of the New Zealand Olympic Games Association, tlie Council of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association has acceded to a request to convene a meeting of all amateur sports governing bodies located in Wellington, and of New Zealand bodies whose headquarters are outside Wellington, to discuss the question of future representation of New Zealand at Olympic Games. The meeting will be held on July 22. In a circular letter to amateur clubs, the secretary of the New. Zealand A.A.A. states: “It is felt that an enthusiastic gatnering at the meeting will be a great incentive and a very material help to the Olympic Council in its task of procuring the means for representation of New Zealand at the next Olympic Games, which will be held at Amsterdam m 1928 in preparation for specially strong representation in 1932 at Los Angeles, when the Games will be nearer to ■New Zealand than in all probability they will for manv years hereafter. The Olympic Games are the only festival at which the different nations can be ■represented in more than oue branch of sport, and in consequence national representation thereat is a matter of interest to all sportsmen in each country. . • . The number of sports in which New Zealand can rake part with credit, and at an expense that should be well witinn its means, is sufficiently large to make her proper representation a matter of pride with all sportsmen in the Dominion. “In New Zealand the Rugby Union has set an example in this direction, despite the fact that Rugby football has been definitely dropped from the Olympic programme. It is not to be expected that governing bodies of sports that are not Olympic sports should take as much practical interest in the Games as those directly interested, but my council suggests that, as governing bodies, their active sympathy with the Olymnic movement will be of the utmost value. At little trouble to they could vain the practical support of the individual members of their constituent clubs who, as New' Zealand sportsmen, are deeply interested in the achievements of all New' Zealanders in international contests.”