Games boxing venue

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32568, 30 March 1971, Page 28

Games boxing venue

The New Zealand Boxing Association has indicated its preference for Canterbury Court as the boxing venue for the 1974 Commonwealth Games, and an application will H made today to the court’s directors for a booking. Canterbury Court was always the proposed boxing venue, but when the Games sports committee interpreted a letter from the court’s jointsecretary (Mr R. T. Alston) as saying that the court would be required during the period of the Games by the Canterbury Manufacturer,' Association, the committee switched to the Town Hall. Mr Alston denied that the court was booked, and when the matter came before the Games organising committee at its meeting two weeks ago it was resolved to have the sports committee reinvestigate the matter. LATE APPOINTMENT At the time, the sports committee’s chairman (Mr H. C. Blazey) said it was not possible to make a firm application for any sports venue until the national body of the sport had given its approval, and because the New Zealand Boxing Association had been late in appointing a representative to his committee, there had been a delay in forwarding an application. Mr Blazey said yesterday that now that the boxing association had indicated its preference for Canterbury Court, an application for a booking would be made immediately.