AUSTRALIAN ATHLETES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22137, 15 December 1933, Page 11

AUSTRALIAN ATHLETES

TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND STATE UNION IGNORED. SYDNEY, December 14. "We are completely in the dark over the whole matter,” said Mr R. Heajhwood (secretary of the Amateur Alh letic Association of New South Wales) when asked whether permission would b»granted Jack Metcalfe and Teddy Hamnson to go to New Zealand, 1 News from New Zealand indicates that extensive preparations have been made for a tour by Metcalfe and Hampson and the Tasmanian E. Barwick, It is understood that the Amateur Athletic Union of Australia has sanctioned the tour, but the New South Wales authorities have received no word of the arrangements, and the officials are indignant that the Australian Union should have gone over their heads. RIGHT PROCEDURE FOLLOWED. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, December 14. Referring to a cablegram to-day concerning the proposed visit of the Australian athletes, Metcalfe, Hampson and Barwick, to the Dominion Mr L. A. Tracey, secretary of the Now Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, stated: “We must as a national body communicate with the national body, which is the Amateur Athletic Union of Australia. / We have done that and have received an official reply giving consent for the tour and an extension of the rule restricting tours to 21 clays.” As to whether the Amateur Athletic Union of Australia had consulted the New South Wales Association, that was a matter, Mr Tracey added, which had nothing to do with the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. ■'