Confusion in boxing world

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33094, 8 December 1972, Page 24

Confusion in boxing world

Members of the Canterbury Boxing Association have been left only a week or so to obtain preferential booking vouchers for the opening and closing sessions of the boxing at the 1974 Commonwealth Games. Administration changes after mass resignation of the council at the annual conference of the Boxing Association in Nelson earlier this year have apparently caused

confusion in the association’s hierarchy. Mr S. C. Ashton, of Tirnaru, the only South Island member of the council, said yesterday that all boxing associations in New Zealand had been notified three times by circular to tell the council!, in Wellington, the number of vouchers they required. life first circular was sent out in September, he said.

But the secretary of the Canterbury Boxing Association (Mr A. Bradshaw) said that that circular had not been received. A second circular, which referred to the

first, had been received late last month, but meant nothing without the first.

All financial members of the association should contact Mr Bradshaw (telephone 69-459), certainly before the end of next week if they want booking vouchers. The C.B.A. will advise the boxing council of its requirements at the ned of next week if they want latest.

Mr Bradshaw said that by the third week of November, according to the Circular, not one of the boxing associations had sent in its booking requirements. The Games Organising

Committee had resolved to make a certain number of preferential seats available, said Mr Ashton. The boxing council would allocate these to local associations in proportion to demand. He said that the money for preferential seats must be paid by individuals who received vouchers before the end of January next year or the vouchers would become invalid.

By his experience at the Tokyo and Munich Olympics and the Edinburgh Commonwealth Games, seats at the boxing sessions would be at a premium.