BOXING FINANCE
FIGURES FOR TEN YEARS
An interesting report which wa» tabled at the annual meeting of delegates to the New Zealand Boxing Couuoil at Hastings by the honorary treasurer (Mr. E. A. Dawson) gave the receipts and expenditure of the council for the tea years ending June 30 from 1925 to 1934. The report showed that the peak years were 1929, 1930, and 1931, the total receipts in those years being £1303 8s sd, £1737 17s 3d, and £1106 9b 9d respectively. The only other occasion on which last year's total of £766 16s 9d was exceeded was in 1927, when the receipts amounted to £954 lls 3d. .
The years of heaviest expenditure were 1929 (£llß6 0s 2d), 1932 (£ll3B 18s id), and last year (£993 15s 8d). An expenditure of £490 3s was made in the_ overseas account in 1929, during "which financial year representatives were sent to the Olympic Games, and payments from this account last year, when a team was sent to Australia, amounted to £281 los 9c!.
The biggest years on the professional side were 1927, 1929, and 1930, the 5 per cent, levy on purses in thoso years producing £447 is 4d, £458 17s 9d, and £440 13s 6d respectively. The charge of 2 per cent, on the house receipts produced £431 6s Id in 1930, £360 15s lOd in 1929, and £297 8s 5d in 1927. The revenue from this source last year was £127 lls Id. The biggest profit from the amAteur championships was made at Greymouth in 1930, the council's share of 50 per cent, amounting to £137 0s 2d.
BOXING FINANCE
Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 78, 29 September 1934, Page 23
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