N.Z. CONFERENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 52, 29 August 1935, Page 7

N.Z. CONFERENCE

BASKETBALL DELEGATES

AMENDMENTS TO RULES

Amendments to the rules, the .transfer of players, and the, development of basketball in the primary schools were considered at the annual conference of delegates from associations affiliated to the New Zealand! Basketball Association, which was continued last night. Mrs. H. D. Muir, president of the New Zealand Association, presided over a full attendance of delegates. The rule concerning the re-entry of a player to the court after the throwin was amended to read as follows:— The throw-in shall be taken at the spot where the ball crossed the line in going out, and- the thrower-in shall reenter the court at any spot within a distance of thirty inches either; way from the place where the ball went out. ;' " ■ The president raised the question of linesmen's duties, and it was decided to instruct referees that the duty of a linesman was to decide which team was entitled to the throw-in after the ball had crossed the line. It was decided to ask the New Zealand Basketball Referees' Association to revise the rules book. Reference was made by one delegate to the fact that in some centres basketball results were not broadcast amongst other sports results on Saturday evenings. It was stated that 2YA broadcast results, and the opinion was expressed that the local associations should get in touch with the broadcasting stations in the particular towns. The question of giving a badge or some other form of recognition to the players who took part in the North Island-South Island match was discussed. It was stated that the matter had been brought up before and rejected, but the Otago delegate who made the suggestion agreed that it should be framed as a notice of motion for next year's conference. A recommendation that associations should advise kindred associations when players transferred to other districts was agreed to. The way basketball was played in some primary schools was responsible for some discussion. One delegate mentioned that in certain schools a game which was certainly not basketball was being played, with less than the regulation number of players and on courts which were not of the correct dimensions. The president said it was necessary to get in touch with the primary schools, and the association should do all it could to foster the game in the prirhary schools. It was decided to advertise in the "New Zealand Educational Gazette" that a revised rules book was being issued, and could be obtained through the New Zealand Association. ■ It was also decided that associations should be allowed to hold stocks of rules books on credit, for publicity purposes in the' primary school. The following officers were elected:— Patroness. Mrs. J. G. Coates; president, Mrs. H. D. Muir; secretary-treasurer, Mrs. R. M. Smith; honorary solicitor, Mr. C. H. Ham; auditor, Mr. L. J. Berry. :