INDIANS’ TOUR
MANAGER’S VIEWS “ARRANGEMENTS DISGUSTING, ’< (Australian Tress Association.) ( Received this day at 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 31. Mr P.' Gupta, referring to the In* dian hockey team’s tour of New Zealand said the. arrangements were disgusting. “We played in rain, sleet, slush and mud, and how we managed to won a match remains a mystery to me. “We were ontje forced to travel a hundred miles ,in a motor bus in extreme cold. “The manner, in which . we raced through both inlands to play twentynine matches did hot allow us to see much of the beauties of the country, but what we did see impressed us greatly. N.Z. People “Sport Mad.” “The people in New Zealand are “sport mad.” “Although we got crowds of 20,000, I think 80 per cent were attracted by the fact that we were Indians.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1935, Page 5
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