OLYMPIC TEAM
NEW ZEALAND ATHLETES WELCOME % LONDON [FROM OCR OW>* CORRESPONDENT] By Air Mail LONDON, June 27 The New Zealand Olympic team arrived in London yesterday looking very fit and bronzed after an enjoyable trip on the Mongolia. They Were met at St. Pancras railway station by the High Commissioner, Sir Parr, who waited there for a full hour owing to the boat train from Tilbury being delayed. J. E. Lovelock, who will captain the team in Berlin, made a special trip from Cambridge to greet them. A. E. Porritt. who will act as manager, met the team at Tilbury. The team is in quarters at Norfolk Court, near Paddington. After the British championships they will proceed to Berlin with the British team, so that they will have more than four weeks' training in England before going to the Continent.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22475, 20 July 1936, Page 6
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