CENTENNIAL SPORTS
STRONG AUCKLAND OBJECTION WELLINGTON AS VENUE l United Press Association J AUCKLAND. 2nd June. Strong resentment was expressed by Mr W. R. F| 3, at a meeting of the council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce to-day. concerning the decision of the New Zealand centennial committee to hold a centennial sporta meeting at Wellington. He claimed that this should be left to Auckland, which had already advanced a proposal for centennial games. He said that the decision would react to the detriment of the Centennial Exhibition in Wellington, as the Auckland publoc would not be prepared to cooperate so fully if the question assumed a parochial aspect. Other speakers supported Mr Fee. maintaining that each centra should ba afforded facilities for its own special form of celebration and that over-lap-ping between centre* should be avoided.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 3 June 1938, Page 4
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