JAPANESE TOUR

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31659, 20 April 1968, Page 15

JAPANESE TOUR

Basketball Plans (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON. The All-Japan men’s basketball team will tour New Zealand next year if the tours sub-committee’s recommendations are approved at the annual meeting of the national association today. Among the sub-committee’s recommendations going forward for approval are: 1. The establishment of a national secondary schools championship, formation of coaching forums for high school teachers, introduction of the same to primary schools, and the setting up of a national junior basketball association. 2. A four-year tours programme, including a reciprocal tour with Japan, the staging of the first Oceania championships in New Zealand, the junior side competing in the Australian championships, and entry into the pre-Olym pic tournament at Munich. 3. A national levy of 88 on senior teams and $4 on junior sides to finance the international programme, and a stream-lining of the national administration by cutting the size of the national council and giving more power to the management committee. 4. A call for the national coach, Mr C. Agnew, for the establishment of a national coaching committee solely of coaches to formulate and supervise coaching programmes. 5. The revision of the representative programme to place emphasis on the Rothmans zone leagues and national tournament and to even out the standard of the national invitation tournament.