VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1933, Page 9

VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND

AUSTRALIAN ATHLETES

SOME MISUNDERSTANDING

(Received December 14, lp,)'.. , ' SYDNEY, This Day. r "We are completely in. the dark ove^ the whole matter,'' said Mr. B. Heaths wood, secretary of the Amateur Ath» letic Association of New South Wales^ when asked whether permission would! be granted Jack Metcalfe and "Teddy** Hampson to go to New Zealand. News from New. Zealand indicate* that extensive preparations, have beeijj inado for. a tour by Metcaifc, Hanipsonj and tho ■Tasmanian E. Barwick. It ia( understood that the Amateur Athletic!* Union of Australia has sanctioned thqi tour, but th« New South Wales auth* orities have received no word of thai arrangements, and officials are indig. nant that the Australian Union should have gone over their heads. . •

"We must as a national body com* municate with the national body, whicJJ is the Amateur Athletic Union- Of Aus* tralia," said Mr. L. A. Tracy, secret tary.of tlio New Zealaiid Amateur Ath* letic Association, when tho cable lues* sage was referred to him. "We havej done that, and have received an offi* cial reply, giving consent for the tou^ and an extension of tho lulo restricbt ing tours to,twenty-one days." As tot whether tho Amateur Athl'otie Unio* of Australia had consulted the Nert^ South "Wales Association, that was q| matter, Mr. Tracy added, which ha<7 nothing to do with the N.Z.A.A.A.