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A Question of Nationalism? The Dissolution of the Australasian Amateur Athletic Relationship

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Sport and the British World, 1900–1930

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At the 1924 Annual General Meeting of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association (NZAAA), Auckland delegate Harold Amos criticised the influence of the Amateur Athletic Union of Australia and New Zealand (formerly the Amateur Athletic Union of Australasia or Australasian Union) on New Zealand athletics. According to the New Zealand Times, Amos

deprecated the stringency of the [Australasian Union’s] amateur reinstatement rule. It is not right, he said, that a body situated in another country should legislate for New Zealand concerning the conditions of which they are quite ignorant.1

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Nielsen, E. (2014). A Question of Nationalism? The Dissolution of the Australasian Amateur Athletic Relationship. In: Sport and the British World, 1900–1930. Britain and the World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137398512_6

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