PREPARING FOR OLYMPIC GAMES
JAPAN GRANTS £OOO,OOO I United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph-Copvrightl (Received 29th March. 1.35 a.m.) TOKIO. 28th March. The Government approved of a Bill appropriating £900.000 for the Olympic Games, of which £550.000 will be devoted to a swimming stadium, baseball and hockey fields, and a cycling track, and the remainder for roads converging on the stadium. Mi W. E. Leadley. president of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association. and one of the best-known of its officers for many years, announced at a meeting of the executive last evening that he intended to retire from office in May. His appointment as Dominion organiser for the New Zealand Disabled Soldiers Civil Re-establish-ment League at Wellington makes it impossible for him to continue his active service with the association.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 29 March 1938, Page 6
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