SCHOOL ATHLETES FOR CENTENARY
HEAD MASTERS DEPOSED [Pkk United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 9. The annual meeting of the Association of Heads of the Registered Secondary Schools of New Zealand adopted "a resolution expressing the opinion that it was inadvisable to send secondary school athletes from New Zealand to the Melbourne centenary celebrations on the following groundsill) It would tend to have an undesirable influence on the character and general outlook of the hoys by giving sport an undue value in their minds. (2) It would take the boys away from school for at least one month. (3) It would be contrary to the best traditions of school sport in New Zealand, which regards sport as a part ot school life to be controlled and managed by the schools themselves, and not by outside bodies.
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Evening Star, Issue 21716, 10 May 1934, Page 4
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