MAORI TOURNAMENT AT WAIMATE

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27132, 31 August 1953, Page 5

MAORI TOURNAMENT AT WAIMATE

(From Our Own Reporter) WAIMATE, August 30. Seventeen teams contested the South Island Maori basketball championship tournament, held at Waimate in fine weather yesterday. Otautahi Club (Christchurch) won the senior championship by beating Community Centre (Christchurch), 7-4. The junior title was won by Community Centre.

Members of the competing teams were entertained by the Morven and Glenavy Tribal Committee at a banquet, followed by a dance and concert, at Morven.

The tournament was opened by the Mayor of Waimate (Mr W. F. Boland), who was introduced by the chairman of the tribal committee (Mr J. Heath). Referees were provided by the Waimate Basketball Sub-Association. Mr Boland was a guest at the banquet. The trophies were presented at the dance by Mr Te Aritaua Pitama. The Pitama Cup (given by Mr Pitama as a memorial to his father, Mr Kohatu Pitama) was presented to the Otautahi team (winners of the senior championship). The Community Centre representatives received the J. Kahu Cup awarded to the senior runners-up. and the Croft Cup for the winners of the junior title. ■ • . The championship tournament, which was initiated by Mr Pitama 17 years ago, is held annually in a different centre. Next year’s fixture will be held at Lyttelton.

LOWER GRADE RESULTS

Onlv lower grade teams played in the Canterbury Basketball Association's competition at Hagley Park today. Senior grade games were not held because of the New Zealand tournament in progress at Invercargill. Results: — Senior Reserve. —Technical 15, Canberra 15.

Third Grade.—Para 14. I.H.C. 12: Opawa 17. Oddfellows 8; West Old Girls 17. Speedee 6; Avonside 1. Woolworth’s 0; St. Mary’s 14. L.W.R. City 14; Technical 1 Teachers’ College 0; Girls’ Trairfing Centre 1, Buckett’s 0; Digby’s 7. Celtic 5: Coronet 9. B.R.A. 9; D.I.C. 1, National Airways 0; Technical 15, Latex 14; West Old Girls 18, Harrod’s Fashions 12; Kowhai 1. Teachers’ College 0; Kaiapoi 24. Prebbleton 16; South Brighton 22, St Theresa’s 2; Whitcombe’s 19, Welkut 10; Ernest Adams 11. Papanui Technical 11; Hay’s 16, St. Mary’s 6; Taylor’s 0. Y.W.C.A. 0; Sornerfield Methodist 1, L.W.R. 0.

Fourth Grade.—Opawa 19. St. Matthew’s 12; Hay’s 1, West Old Girls 0; Matchless 0. Siespa 0; St. Nicholas 22. Technical 5; South Brighton 1, Sacred Heart 0; Duckworth. Turner’s 16. Kakatai 8; N.Z. Farmers’ 1, McKenzie’s 0; Beaths 14. Celtic 14; Boothmac 16, Digby’s 7; St. Theresa’s 11, Barraclouph’s 9: Rugby Street Methodist 20, Technical 2; Papanui Technical 12, Sisepa 11; Speedee 1, Hollywood 0. Fourth Grade B.—Embassy 15. Addington 12; Cathedral 21, Del Rae 10; Peterson’s 10, Edgeware 7; Sumner 5, Technical 2; Junior Comets 1, Hollywood 0; Matchless 1, Community Centre 0; Death’s 1, Y.W.C.A. 0; Kaiapoi 7, Technical 7; B.R.A. 15. Argyle Textiles 15; Camac 17, Woolworth’s Colombo Street 5; St. Anne’s 18, Sydenham Red Shields 6; Sisepa 5, Victory 5; Hollanders’ 1, St. Mary’s 0.

Fifth Grade—Haere Mai 15. West Old Girls 1; Sacred Heart 1, Addington Old Girls 0: Hagley 16, Drayton Jones 1; Celtic 1. St. Anne’s 0; O’Brien’s 14, Sacred Heart 11; Technical 16, Celtic 3, St. Stephen’s 4, West Old Girls 3; Sumner 1, N.B.D.H.S. 0; St. Mary’s 11, Sacred Heart 11; Technical 0, Sydenham Methodist 0; Oddfellow’s 1, Gould’s 0; Sacred Heart 11, N.B.D.H.S. 7.

Sixth Grade.—St. Anne’s 1, Community Centre 0; Sumner 1, Technical D 0; Kakatai E 17, Kakatai F 8; Sydenham Red Shields 1, Addington Old Girls 0; Technical C 0, Kaiapoi 0; St. Mary’s 10, Cathedral 6; Sacred Heart 1. N.B.D.H.S. 0; St. Theresa’s 0, Barraclough’s 0.