MARCHING GIRLS FOR AUSTRALIA

Wanganui Chronicle, 29 March 1949, Page 9

MARCHING GIRLS FOR AUSTRALIA

The executive of the New Zealand Marching Association says the association has no connction with the proposals to send teams to Australia, reports the “Evening Post,” Wellington. Referring to statements made at a public meeting in New Plymouth regarding the proposed visit to Sydney of the Kilties’ marching team, the executive says that proposals to send teams to Australia are the sole concern of the New Zealand Marching Union, a small unincorporated body with which are affiliated a few teams in Wanganui, Palmerston North, Ohakune, Huntcrville, and Masterton. “For some time past we have been endeavouring to get the union to amalgamate with us, but their failure to honour certain promises made by them at a joint conference in April, 1248, obliged us to abandon th 6 negotiations,” says an olficial statement. "The disclosures made at New Plymouth last week bring to a head the growing dissatisfaction with which the union affiliates view the methods, of the union executive, and as a result it is likely that all the union affiliates will link up with us shortly, thus bringing the sport of marching under the one control. At present there are 62 associations affiliated with us through 19 centres from Northland to Southland. Any comparison between the two bodies is therefore ludicrous, as is also the claim of the union that they conduct a New Zealand championship.”