EMPIRE GAMES TEAM
A DUNEDIN PROTEST. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Dee. 21. At a meeting of the Otago centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association to-night a strong protest was lodged at the New Zealand council’s action in not considering the selection of a marathon runner for the Empire Games. The following resolution was unanimously carried: “That this centre strongly deprecates the action of the New Zealand council in ignoring the claims of marathon runners for a place in the Empire Games team, and that a telegram be 6ent to the council setting out again the claims of G. L. Austin in particular, and urging that a 20-mile national trial he held without delay.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 21, 22 December 1937, Page 6
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115EMPIRE GAMES TEAM Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 21, 22 December 1937, Page 6
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