OLYMPIC TEAM

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 107, 7 May 1936, Page 11

OLYMPIC TEAM

DEPARTURE DELAYED

TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS

"""Owing to the departure of the Wanganella for Sydney having been postponed,-the members of the New Zealand Olympic Games team will not be leaving Wellington until tomorrow. The Wanganella was to have sailed at midday today. -, !

T. Arbuthnot (Wellington)/ one of the boxers, is to be the manager of the team on the voyage to England. On arrival in England the managership will be taken over by Dr. A. E. Porritt and.the team will also, be joined by J. E. Lovelock, who is to be the captain of the team ; at the Olympic Games with.Arbuthnot vice-captain.

The members of the team were met last night, by the New Zealand Olympic Games Council. Mr. H. McCormick, chairman of the council, explained that' the New Zealanders would join the Australian team at Sydney, and from there to Marseilles would be really under thei wing of the Australian manager, an arrangement which he thought the New Zealand team would find a happy one. The Australian team had expressed itself as pleased that the New Zealand team should join them.

Mr. McCormick impressed on the team the necessity for punctuality and said that their principal job was to do their best. On behalf of the New Zealand Olympic Games Association he wished them the best of luck.

Mr. A. D. Bayfeild also spoke, and Arbuthnot replied on behalf of tho team. He said they would all be real triers.

Earlier in the evening • the three boxers—Arbuthnot, N. Fisher, and C. Gordon—were met by the Council of the New Zealand Boxing Association and were wished a safe and successful trip. They were told they were expected to be good sports whether they were winners or losers, and the hope was expressed also that on their return they would pass on to. the younger amateurs coming on the benefit of the knowledge ; they gained overseas.

The team is to travel ■ to England from Australia in the Mongolia, which is scheduled to leave-Sydney on May