WINTER SPORTS
INTERNATIONAL RACES PROPOSED, I bailed (’re** Animation) AUCKLAND. 9th June. The opinion that Australia and New Zealand suffer in their relations with the United States of America, particularly when compared with Canada and South Africa, through not having offficial representives in the United States, was expressed by Mr T. F. Mitchell, Victoria, who was a through passenger by the Monterey, which arrived from San Francisco. Mr Mitchell, who has won the New Zealand ski-ing championship three times, has been at Harvard University taking a special course on international relations and American diplomacy. Mr Mitchell said he did little racini ski-ing abroad, but he coached hk wife, who gained many successes Ir several countries. She won the down hall championship of Canada snd th* Argentine. was runner-up at th* championship meeting at Quebec. an< fifth in the national American cham pio.uhip. The possibility of holding Britisl Empire winter games was investigate' by Mr Mitchell. Canadians receiver the idea with enthusiasm, and so dir British skiers, he said. It was possibh that Australia and New Zealand wouk fct invited to the international races a Banff, Alberta, in two years’ time.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 12 June 1939, Page 9
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190WINTER SPORTS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 12 June 1939, Page 9
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