BASKETBALL N.Z. TO APPLY FOR WORLD CONFERENCE

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29818, 10 May 1962, Page 6

BASKETBALL N.Z. TO APPLY FOR WORLD CONFERENCE

(New Zealand Press Association)

MASTERTON, May 9. The New Zealand Basketball Association will apply for the next international conference, in 1967, to be held In the Dominion, it was decided today at the association's annual conference. being held in Masterton.

The conference formed a subcommittee to report on the possibility of coaching schools for coaches. The scheme would begin on provincial level with a view to developing it later on national lines. Among remits dealt with by the conference, one from Wellington resulted in the delegates giving more official recognition to coaches accompanying teams to national tournaments.

The coaches will now have their names Included on the programmes, and will be able to attend the meeting held before the tournament, which previously only managers had attended.

“For the first time last year at the national tournament there was real development in the techniques and tactics of basketball as played under the new rules." said the president (Mrs R Lane) in her address. Mrs Lane, who welcomed the

71 delegates, referred to the increased membership, and said that 80 new teams had been registered. A new aspect of the sport in New Zealand was its entry into the international field, she said.

Widening of contacts with other countries included the appointment of a liaison officer to the International Basketball Federation.

The 1963 conference will be held in Nelson.

The association elected Mrs Lane as vice-president of the International Basketball Federation.