The dates for the different sports at the Olympic Games next year are expected by the British Olympic Association to be— July 28 and 29, weight lifting; July 29 to August 11, fencing; July 30 to August 1, wrestling; July 29 to August 6, athletics; August 4 to August 11, swimming; August 6 to August 11, boxing; August 3 to August 5, cycling. After the finals of the different classes at the recent military tourney in Christchurch had been fought, Mr. E. A. Dawson, a member of the Council of the New Zealand Boxing Association, addressed the spectators briefly, and stated that the tourney that, was being arranged between the Canterbury and Wellington district teams was the beginning of a move to establish the meetings of teams from the four main military districts, a move which it was hoped would lead up to an aqpy championships tourney on the lines of the big titles meetings held in Great Britain.
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Southland Times, Issue 20207, 18 June 1927, Page 18 (Supplement)
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