OLYMPIC GAMES.
RIGHTS OF RIFLEMEN
NEW ZEALAND RUGBY TEAM
I BY CABLE—PEEPS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT WELLINGTON, Jxily 24. At a meeting of the Olympic Council a motion was passed recognising the right of riflemen who competed for money prizes to compete at the Olympic Games. Tl-.e High Commissioner notified that Dominion teams would have to enter through the English football and rowing bodies. Mr Dean said the New Zealand Rugby Union would go home inde-pendentiy of any other body. Asked if the Rugby Union would assist the Council with funds, he said: "No. The Imperial aspect of the games had disappeared. They had been handed over to a. str.dium committee'at the Empire Exhibition, and it might be a private enterprise.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 24 July 1923, Page 5
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118OLYMPIC GAMES. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 24 July 1923, Page 5
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