EMPIRE GAMES TEAM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21909, 19 September 1934, Page 10

EMPIRE GAMES TEAM

ARRIVAL AT FREMANTLE INJURY TO WHAREAITU Private advice received in Auckland last evening from H. K. Brainsby, manager of the New Zealand Empire Games team, which reached Fremantle on its way home yesterday, stated that W. Whareaitu fell on the deck of the steamer and his leg came in contact with an iron cleet, inflicting a nasty gash. Six stitches were inserted, and Whareaitu is making good progress.

Whareaitu is the New Zealand champion backstroke swimmer, and he went to England to represent the Dominion in that particular event at the Empire Games. He resides at Rotorua.

TREATMENT OT MEMBERS AUTHORITIES CRITICISED [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday The conditions under which the New Zealand team for the Empire Games was selected, and sent to London, were vigorously condemned during a discussion at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Amateur Athletic Club. The action of the authorities 'in Wellington in allowing the team only three weeks in London before the Games, and in refusing T. G. Broadway permission to go earlier at his own expense, was described a$ "stark lunacy" and " a scandalous shame." The club instructed delegates to bring the protest before the Canterbury Amateur Athletic Centre, to be carried to headquarters in Wellington.

Broadway is a member of the Canterbury Club.