OLYMPIC GAMES
WRANQLING OVER HOCKEY. DISCUSSION AT OTTAWA OTTAWA, Feb. 18 Declaring that the Olympic winter sports were marked by wrangling over hockey and were a bad advertisement for Canada, Mr. Thomas Church, Conservative member for Toronto, suggested in the House of Commons that the time had come for the abandonment of the Olympic Games in favour of Empire Games. The alleged remarks of the president of the Canadian Hockey Association at the winter Games were fostering ill will against Canada. The .Prime Minister, Mr. Mackenzie King, said the president of the association was not the representative of the Canadian Government.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22344, 15 February 1936, Page 13
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