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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 6. 1966.

Australian sport tour

Australian sport tour

Somewhere in Australia, undeclared by the student press, the New Zealand universities' fencing and table-tennis teams are on tour. In the last week some reports have filtered back—so far the tour has been particularly successful.

Both Teams left on Wednesday, May 11, for Melbourne and have at the time of writing played Victoria Stat university and Monash university of Melbourne. Both games were won handsomely.

The New Zealand table-tennis team is a strong one with three members from the Victoria club (which won the winter tournament here at Wellington last year). Harry Waterhouse, Barry Cross and Barry Coley are experienced men as are the other members of the team. The games so far played have not been confined to university teams and the New Zealand team has challenged the Victoria State team.

The bid was unsuccessful but Harry Waterhouse, the only successful member on this occasion excelled himself by beating last year's Australian champion. The trip has been conducted on a tight programme with most days spent in competition. Considering the team is in Australia for 20 days the schedule is a tough one.

The fencing team, which is holding a concurrent tour, visits many of the same universities as the table-tennis team. Unfortunately results of their efforts have not come through, but judging by the standard of fencing at last year's winter tournament the results could be favourable.

The tour is a reflection of the good work being done by our national student sports' organisation NZUSU and is indicative of what can be done when the universities in New Zealand pull their weight.