OLYMPIC GAMES
♦" —•' —— rowing eight proposal ABANDONEE. '] PERSONNEL OF TEAM. L ■ (Press Association.) * ■ WELLINGTON, April 18. A statement was. made by the Now Zealand Olympic Council today that it has been . reluctantly forced to abandon the proposal to include a. rowing eight in the team for Amsterdam.. ; ' . , : The . full team now consists •; or Misses Sliller and Stockley, swim-mers-.'Miss Wilson, runner; Lay, javelin; Lindsay, swimmer; Morgan, and Clever ley, boxers; jVloorhouse, swimmer. Dr Porritt, the runner, now in England, will captain the team. • . '. Sirs Amos:, wife of the ■ chairman of the council, will be chaperon, She makes the trip at her' own expense, and will be with the team from the time of departure from New : Zealand until it returns.; Mr Amos goes as manager, and w oe. New Zealand’s authoritative representative at, Amsterdam and in social functions. . . ' t The council expresses deep regret that the funds are not sumcient to dnaUlo the rowing section to be in-, itfluded. The various members win thko part in other , sports - while Away, and: if suitable arrangements •4a,hV' ; Be? iria^c' the team will return • yia. .South' Africa.’ ;.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10565, 19 April 1928, Page 5
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