THE PERFECT HOST
Wellington Generous To Visiting Sportsmen WEATHER AND PRIZES With beautiful sunshine from clear, blue skies, Wellington has acted the perfect host this week to great numbers of sports people from all over the Dominion. Conditions have been ideal for the continuation of the Dominion bowling tournament, in which some 1000 are taking part, for the Sanders Cup contest, which Auckland won on Wellington’s unrivalled harbour, for the croquet and junior tennis tournaments, and the trap shooting competition at Lower Hutt. The fact that the Wellington Racing Club, with its excellent discernment in choosing weather, was holding its centennial meeting at Trentham is said to be the secret for the brilliant weather, which has benefited not only the racing club and its patrons (possibly), but various other branches of sport as well. In its role of perfect host- Wellington kept little of any real value for itself, but saw to it that the principal prizes, including the racing club’s Centennial Cup and the Sanders Cup, were distributed generously among the visitors.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 98, 19 January 1940, Page 8
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173THE PERFECT HOST Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 98, 19 January 1940, Page 8
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