"MODERN BOOM TOWN"

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 7, 8 July 1931, Page 8

"MODERN BOOM TOWN"

A SPORES ATTRACTION

1?iio latest advice from America indicates that preparations are being pushed on apace at Los Angeles for the Games of the Tenth Olympiad, commencing at the end of July nest year.

One report says that aa international village, a modern boom town not unlike those of California's goldrush clays, will spring up in Los Angeles in the summer of 1932. Hero, for the iirat time since the Games of ancient Greece, when participants pitched thoir tents on the plains of Elis, tho representatives of the different nations will be centrally housed, fed, and entertained. This "boom" town will be a few miles west of Los Angeles proper, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and only a few minutes' ride from tho stadium where most of the contests will bo held. It is to have a telephone exchange, post office, and banking facilities. Each residence in this village is to house four'persons. The streets have been designed so as to make the competitors feel at home. Spain, the Orient, Switzerland, Germany, France, and other countries sending competitors will have architectural representation.. There will be a special dining-room for the teams of each country, and steps have been taken to ensure athletes being served the foods of their own nation cooked in'the way they arc accustomed to have them cooked. Tho entertainment will include talking pictures in native tongue and music indigenous to each nation.

Considerable research and study was devoted to th© problem of the welfare of the representatives from foreign countries, and although such elaborate preparations have been made, the Olympic Village will remain only during the currency of the Games. It will disappear soon after tho end of the Games on 14th August.

During tho past few -weeks tho Now Zealand Olympic Games Council has been making an appeal to the public in a popular way to help ensure .that New Zealand will bo well and adequately represented at Los Angeles. Never before havo the Olympic Games given this country a better opportunity of sending a strong team than do the Games of the Tenth Olympiad, opening in Los AngeloSj California, on 30th July, 1932.