WATER POLO COLTS

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31763, 21 August 1968, Page 14

WATER POLO COLTS

Team Going To Melbourne

After receiving a letter from the Victorian Amateur Water Polo Association, the New Zealand Water Polo Board last evening proposed that the planned trip to Australia by the national colts team in January should be made to Melbourne.

The board also considered Sydney to be an ideal place at which young players would gain experience but it felt that Melbourne would present a greater variety of techniques, especially as Victoria was the present Australian title-holder.

The convenor of the New Zealand selectors, Mr N. R. Chambers. suggested that a training school should be held in Christchurch between December 26-31.

The team would be announced at the end of the school and would leave on January 10. During the planned 10 days in and around Melbourne matches would be played against club and State sides.

Central League: The national coach, Mr W. H. Dyson, reported that arrangements were under way for the establishment of a central league, based at Palmerston North, in which teams from Wairarapa, Wanganui, Hawke's Bay. Wellington, New Plymouth, and Manawatu would compete.

Coaching Clinics: Mr Dyson will hold coaching clinics at Tauranga from August 19-23, at Rotorua from August 29 to September 2, at Palmerston North from September 28-29, at Masterton in early October and at Auckland on November 16-17.