ATHLETICS.
FESTIVAL of empire sports
A PROMISE FROM THE PREMIER
[Per press association.}
WELLINGTON, Feb. 16
Sir Joseph Ward informed a reporter to-day that the Government had decided to give a subsidy of pound for pound, up to £SOO, to send champion athldtes to the Festival of Empire in accordance Avit'a a request recently made to him by several athletic bodies. Mr. Walter Johnston, secretary of the New Zealand SAvimming Association, one of the bodies concerned in the GoA'ernment’s decision, said that lie felt that.the offer Avas a A-ery liberal one, and Avas completelv satisfactory. It was hoped that the sum of £250 Avould bo raised privately, and-that the Government subsidy of the same sum Avould enable four representatives, three athletes and one sAvimmer, to be sent from New Zealand.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3147, 17 February 1911, Page 6
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130ATHLETICS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3147, 17 February 1911, Page 6
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