OLYMPIC GAMES.
RIEFftESENTATION PROCESSES,
UNION INDEPENDENCE
WELLINGTON, This Day,
At a meeting of the Olympic Council a motion was passed recognising the right of riflemen who have competed for money prizes competing at the Olympic Games.
The High Commissioner notified that Dominion football and rowing teams would have to enter through the English football and rowing boiieß.
Mr Dean said that the New Zea* land Rugby Union would go Home independently of any other body.
Asked if the Rugby Union would assist the Council with funds he said that the Imperial aspect of the Games had disappeared. They had been handed over to the Stadium Committee at the Empire Exhibition, and it might be a private enterprise.—Press Assn.
I AUSTRALIAN QUOTA. I , A £3000 GUARANTEE. (Received 12.10 p.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The Commonwealth Government h:is promised to donate £3000 towards the expenses of the Australian Olympic team if the Olympic Federation cannot raise the remaining £10,000. necessary <£>n the pro rata basis.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 24 July 1923, Page 8
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