Tournament's plans nearly ready

Arrangements for winter tournament are going very well, according to most of the organizers contacted by Salient.

"We've only got minor problems as far as I can see," said Rodd Trott, Students' Association Sports Officer.

"In particular we're very short of people to help out with the mundane jobs of organisation — phoning, arranging information for visitors, and general administration," he said.

Only minor changes have been necessary in the Tournament programme — Massey have had to withdraw from the rugby league, but so far this is the only one.

Drinking Horn has posed some problems, however. Understandably some hotels are a little reluctant to provide a venue for this function.

Consequently it has had to be postponed until the Thursday, in a location yet to be found.

"It's now largely up to the individual sports' organizers to see that things go well during the week," Rod said.

Billeting is now much less of a problem than was feared. Only 350 billets had to be found instead of the estimated 600.

"We have enough billets now," said the billeting controller, Sharyn Cederman.

"The sports clubs have been of very little help, except the rugby league club. Most billets were obtained by telephoning people.

"We made at least 3,000 calls," Sharyn said.

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