LAWN TENNIS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 195, 19 August 1930, Page 14

LAWN TENNIS.

NEW ZEALAND BODY'S REPORT

NEARLY 30,000 PUV.YERS.

ENCOUEAGEMENT OF JUNIORS,

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, this day,

"Thei'e are now twenty associations affiliated to the parent body, with an estimated total membership of 28,000 members," says the annual report of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association, to bo presented to tke annual meeting On August 29. Some associations, it continues, had 'failed to furnish their annual returns, and as a result their clubs would be deprived of a good deal of benefit. ' . , For the first time in the history of the association, the annual New Zealand tournament had been held after the New Year holidays, and ae a result entries were small. Notwithstanding the favourable weather and the suitable seating accommodation, public attendance had been smaller than at any of the New Zealand championships held during the past eleven years. The total entries for all events had been 197, compared with 245 for the previous year. Dealing with the junior tennis, the report says that few of the, affiliated associations had conducted tournaments with any great success, and in other districts tournament play had been encouraged, though the efforts of the Hawke's Bay and Poverty Bay Associations had not received the support they deserved! The committee believed that the majority of affiliated associations were endeavouring to.foster junior tennis, and there was every indication that the time was now ripe for a proper organisation on a national basis.

The statement.of accounts presented with the report shows a profit of, £61 2/7 for the year.