WHERE WERE THE CAMBRIDGE CHILDREN?

Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 2315, 25 March 1930, Page 5

WHERE WERE THE CAMBRIDGE CHILDREN?

(To the Editor). Sir, —Might I crave space through the medium of your valuable paper to draw attention to the fact that the school boys and girls of the Cambridge schools have been truly overlooked by not being represented in the South Auckland Public Schools' Amateur Athletic Association's annual sports, which took place at Rugby Park, Hamilton, on Friday, March 21st, there being about two thousand children, representing ten town and country schools, taking part. The account in Saturday's Herald leaves an old athlete wondering why the sturdy limbs of the Cambridge boys and girls were not given free play in helping to keep Cambridge to the fore in these events. As Cambridge is included in the South Auckland territory, I naturallly ask myself why is it that Te Rapa, Gordonton and Fairfield schools carried all before them, and that the meeting which fell due on 21st March was not even known to the boys and girls of your town? Does not this show a lack of interest in helping to develop a sport which has ranked high with our forefathers, and helped to make them the men they were ? —I am, etc., LES. JONES, Hon. Sec, Hamilton Amateur Athletic and Cycle Club. . Hamilton, March 24, 1930.