“Racing and football seem to be the fcnly things that take on down here,” Baid Mr. E. L. (president) at a recent meeting of the Otago Centre of fie New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, when the secretary (Mr. R. Swinney) reported, that the loss on Saturday’s sports meeting exceeded £2O. A delegate eaid that efforts should be made to popularise athletic sport among the ladies. Mr. G, Luckhurst eaid that that had already been done. On one occasion tickets had been eent <o the ladies’ hockey clubs, bub very few of the girls h ; id attended the sports meeting. “If you put on a jazz,” he gdded drily, “you might get them
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1923, Page 12
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