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OLYMPIC GAMES TEAM COMMENT ON RESULTS (Pur Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Now Zealand Olympic Gamps team arriv’d hack by the Rangitiki, except Y. P. Boot, who comes m three weeks’ time. Arhuthnol, the captain, said that although some of the decisions in the boxing and wrestling were very questionable, he thought that the New- (Zealanders had been fail!v treated. He found nothing to cavil at. Matthews expressed the opinion that he believed hotter results might have been produced had llie team gone home by the Panama, instead of Suez. Cinder tracks were a necessity in New Zealand if the athletes of this country were to compete on anything like equal terms with competitors abroad.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19152, 22 October 1936, Page 15
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