New Zealand's Sporting Year.

New Zealand is having a real sporting year! A fully representative team has been in Sydney at the Empire Games, our surf life-saving men had a team in Australia for the first time on record, a New Zealander, Frank Livingstone, won the singles at the Australian Bowling Carnival staged as part of the Sesqui-centennial celebrations, and a team of police athletes are in Sydney ready to participate in the Australian Police Games.

This is a new departure for New Zealand—representation in the Police Gàmes by a strong team, although individuals have been competing there previously—and is a trend of the physical welfare movement which is being noted throughout New Zealand. All of the men chosen to represent the New Zealand Police Force are young with bright prospects of success in track and field, and, encouraged by the Commissioner of Police, Mr. D. J. Cummings, they are hopeful that they will perform with credit, and so set page 62 the ball rolling for the establishment of police clubs throughout the principal cities in New Zealand.

Eight years ago New Zealand had three policemen—Jack M'Holm, Peter Munro, and E. G. Sutherland—capable of holding their own in the best of company, but since then the standard has gradually slipped until to-day, with a definite sign of improvement, New Zealand has no really outstanding policeman-athlete. But Kofoed, a young field-event competitor, has taken the eye of A. L. Fitch, the American coach, and is likely to make his mark in the field of sport.

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