THE OLYMPIC GAMES.
DOMINION'S REPRESENTATIVES. [BY telegraph.— PßESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Monday. At a meeting of the New Zealand Olympic Council this evening G. N. Hill and A. F. Wilding were selected to represent New Zealand in the Australasian team for the Olympic games, to be held at Stockholm in June and July. Hill will run in distance events, and an effort will be made to send him with the Australian members of the team, who will leave by the Osterley on April 10. Wilding, who is at present in England, will take part in the tennis events.
The council communicated with Woodger (Wellington), Keddell (Southland), Kerr (Taranaki), Harding (Napier), Opie (Canterbury), and Champion (Auckland). Keddell replied that he coidd not go. Kerr and Harding gave no reply, while Opie was unable to give a definite reply. Champion was able to go only on conditions that the council could not comply with. Woodger replied that, he could go, but it was decided not to send him. Skeet, a New Zealand sprinter at present residing in Edinburgh, was nominated by the New Zealand Council, but as the. committee had no performances before it to warrant his inclusion, he was passed over.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14933, 5 March 1912, Page 7
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